Timothy Winter

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Abdal-Hakim Murad at Cambridge

Timothy Winter (also known as Abdal-Hakim Murad) is a lecturer in Islamic studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge and a leading British Islamic scholar. He was educated at Westminster School and graduated with a first-class honours MA in Arabic from Cambridge in 1983.

He is General Editor of the Islamic Texts Society's al-Ghazali series. His translations of Al-Ghazali’s On Death and What Comes After and On Disciplining the Soul have been acclaimed.

He is a member of Pembroke College, Cambridge and holds the Sheikh Zayed Lectureship in Islamic Studies. He is also Director of Studies in Theology at Wolfson College, the Trustee and Secretary of The Muslim Academic Trust, Director of The Anglo-Muslim Fellowship for Eastern Europe and President of the UK Friends of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

His research interests are in Muslim-Christian relations, Islamic ethics and the study of the orthodox Muslim response to extremism.

He attended courses in the traditional Islamic sciences in Cairo and Jeddah, where his teachers included Shaykh Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad and Shaykh Ismail al-Adawi. He has translated several classical Arabic works, including Imam al-Bayhaqi's Seventy-Seven Branches of Faith, and 'Selections from the Fath al-Bari'.