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Sh. Yasir Qadhi has a Bachelors in Hadith and a Masters in Theology from the Islamic University of Madinah, and a PhD in Islamic Studies from Yale University. He is an instructor and Dean of Academic Affairs at AlMaghrib, and the Resident Scholar of the Memphis Islamic Center.

is a British convert to Islam who is known in some Muslim communities for his work in Dawah, both in televised formal settings and informal contexts such as Hyde Park’s Speakers Corner. He is the chairman of the Islamic Education and Research Academy.

Dr Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips is a Jamaican Canadian Islamic Scholar who converted to Islam in the early seventies. He has completed a BA in Islamic studies in Madinah, and an MA in Islamic Theology in Riyadh, then to the University of Wales, UK, where he completed a PhD in Islamic Theology in the early nineties.

Specialist in Spirituality and Qur’an. Studied Tafsir, Fiqh and Hadith with scholars from Hijaz and Egypt. Educates on domestic violence, misogyny, gender discrimination, child protection, disability and mental health. Awarded West Australian Multicultural Community Service Award for Individual Excellence.

Sheikh Abdur-Raheem is an Irish-American who accepted Islam in 1994 and traveled to Sudan to study Islam. He was accepted into the Islamic University of Madinah and enrolled into the Arabic Institute and then graduated from the faculty of Da’wah and Usool Ad-Deen.

Sheikh Alaa studied for his Bachelors in Shariah from the American International University and earned a scholarship from the Shari’ah Academy/Mishkah University in Florida. Sheikh Alaa has studied comparative religion for five years through the IPCI in South Africa.

Over the past 20 years, Na’ima B. Robert has been telling stories and helping other women tell theirs. As a trail-blazing author of over 20 diverse fiction titles for children and teens, as well as the bestselling memoir, ‘From My Sisters’ Lips’, Na’ima’s work has been read, studied, debated and translated multiple times, all around the world.

Sheikh Omar studied Anthropology at university following which he gained a BA degree from the faculty of Shariah at the Islamic University of Madina. During his time in Madina he studied Tafsir closely with Sheikh Abdullah Ibn Muhammed Al-Ameen Asshinqitee and Sheikh Khaled Afifi.

He is a prominent da`ee who delivers lectures around the country. Yusuf has also traveled extensively to give dawah including Mexico, India and Kuwait. He is also a regular on many television channels including Peace TV and Islam Channel. He is also currently an ambassador for the UK humanitarian aid charity, One Ummah.

Ustadh Asif was born and raised in the UK and graduated in Business and Information Technology from the University of North London. He has been heavily involved in the Da’wah from the time he was at university. He has studied the Islamic sciences in Mauritania, Egypt and Qatar, and continues that journey today.

Ustadh Umer was born and raised in South London and studied Economics at the Royal Holloway University of London. He is a specialist in Islamic Finance and currently serves as the Global Head of Risk for Wahed, a global Islamic Fintech, as well as serving on the Board of the UKIFC and the Islamic Council Finance Advisory under the guidance of several established Scholars.

A Darul Uloom, Bury graduate who also studied at Jamiah Uloom Al-Islamiyyah, Banori Town and concluded with an ijaazah to teach from Darul Uloom, Newcastle, South Africa where Shaykh Zahir Mahmood benefitted from the teaching and guidance of erudite scholars like Molana Qasim Sema (may Allah preserve them).

Sheikha Fatima Barkatulla is Director of Muslim Womanhood Foundation, a British Islamic scholar, author and presenter of the IlmFeed Podcast. She is currently an Aziz Foundation Scholar pursuing an MA in Islamic Law at the University of London.

Dr. Salman studied Biochemistry at Imperial College London followed by a PhD in Chemical Biology. During his years at university he became involved in Islamic society da’wah and activism, and general Muslim community projects. He is the Chief Editor at Islam21c.