Abdul-Hakim Murad

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Abdul-Hakim Murad (born 1960) was born Timothy J. Winters in Britain. He attended Westminster School in London in 1983, as well as the University of Cambridge where he majored in the Arabic language. He went on to study at the al-Azhar University in Egypt where he majored in Islamic studies. In 1989 he returned to Britain and went to the University of London were he studied Turkish and Persian. He obtained a doctorate at Oxford University were he studied the religious life in the Ottoman Empire. He has translated into English the Ihya Ulum al-Din of Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and has been involved in writing for numerous Muslim publications.