Dilwar Hussain

Not to be confused with Delwar Hussain or Delwar Hossain.

Dilwar Hussain (born 24 December 1971) is a British academic and independent consultant working on social policy, Muslim identity and Islamic reform in the modern world.

Biography

Hussain, a British Bangladeshi, studied at King's College London, graduating in 1993. He received a Master of Philosophy in religious studies from the University of Wales, Lampeter in 1999.

He is founding Chair of New Horizons in British Islam, a charity that works for reform in Muslim thought and practice, a Senior Programme Advisor to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a Research Fellow at the Lokahi Foundation and an Associate of the Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge.

He has taught courses on Islam in contemporary society and has a number of published works in the field. He has worked in academic research and policy consultancy for over 15 years, delivering contracts for private sector groups as well as government departments.

His recent research and advisory work includes: a major report on Muslims in Leicester for the Open Society Foundations; Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Inquiry on Prevent (2010); the Cambridge-Azhar Imams Training Project, University of Cambridge and FCO; steering group of the Contextualising Islam in Britain Project, University of Cambridge.

He is a Trustee of the Islamic Society of Britain, the Three Faiths Forum (3FF), the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, and Maslaha. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Faiths and Civil Society Unit at Goldsmith College, a Fellow of the Royal Foundation of St. Katharine's Contextual Theology Centre and an Associate of the think tank Demos.

Hussain was Head of the Policy Research Centre, at the Islamic Foundation (2007–2013). He was also a Commissioner at the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) (2006–2007). He served on the Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission on Urban Life and Faith (2005–2006), worked on the Preventing Extremism Together workgroups set up by the Home Office after 7 July 2005; and was co-chair of Alif-Aleph UK (2005). He has been listed in the Who's Who of British Muslims by and the 2013 British Bangladeshi Power 100.

He is a member of the Community, Voluntary and Local services committee of the Honours Committee, which nominates people for the Queen's Birthday and New Year's Honours.[1]

Selected publications

See also

References

  1. "Honours Committees". Cabinet Office. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  2. "Cambridge Journals Online - Social Policy and Society - Abstract - Social Policy, Cultural Integration and Faith: A Muslim Reflection". cambridge.org.
  3. "Beyond the Dysfunctional Family: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Dialogue With Each Other and With Britain: Amazon.co.uk: Alan Race Ed, Jane Clements, Elizabeth Harris, Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi, Sughra Ahmed, Dilwar Hussain, Humera Khan, Abduljalil Sajid, Rachel Benjamin, Miriam Berger: 9781468167474: Books". amazon.co.uk.
  4. http://www.policyresearch.org.uk/events/publications-BritSecularismReligion.php
  5. "Muslims in Leicester". Open Society Foundations.
  6. "The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World". oup.com.
  7. http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=637
  8. http://www.lga.gov.uk/lga/publications/publication-display.do?id=1181541
  9. "Occasional Papers". georgetown.edu.
  10. "Independent Progressive Public Policy Think Tank" (PDF). smith-institute.org.uk.
  11. http://www.worlddialogue.org/current_issue.htm
  12. "Faith as social capital". jrf.org.uk.
  13. "9780852650561: Islam, Race and Being British - AbeBooks - Bunting, Madeleine (ed.): 0852650566". abebooks.co.uk. 12 April 2015.
  14. "Documents - Justice" (PDF). europa.eu.
  15. "Islam and the West Post September 11th: Amazon.co.uk: Ron Greaves, Theodore P.C. Gabriel, Yvonne Haddad, Jane Idleman Smith: 9780754650058: Books". amazon.co.uk.
  16. Dilwar Hussain. "MUSLIM POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN BRITAIN AND THE 'EUROPEANISATION' OF FIQH » Brill Online". ingentaconnect.com.
  17. "British Muslims Between Assimilation and Segregation: Historical, Legal and Social Realities: Amazon.co.uk: Hussain Dilwar, Nadeem Malik, Mohammed Siddique Seddon: 9780860373544: Books". amazon.co.uk.
  18. "Amazon.co.uk: British Muslims: Loyalty and Belonging: Books". amazon.co.uk.
  19. "Modernizing Islam: Religion in the Public Sphere in the Middle East and Europe: Amazon.co.uk: John L. Esposito, Francois Burgat: 9780813531984: Books". amazon.co.uk.

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