Tabraze Azam is a traditionally-trained educator of the Islamic sciences specialising in Hanafi Sacred Law and Legal Theory. He memorised the Qurʾan, earned his BSc in Computer Science and Management from the University of Leicester, and formally studied classical Islamic disciplines for over a decade with a number of distinguished scholars in Turkey and Jordan, thereby attaining traditional licenses to teach and transmit sacred knowledge.
He is a graduate of the law-track at the Anwar al-ʿUlama Institute in Amman which focused on providing extensive jurisconsult training in both Hanafi legal theory and law application. Presently, he is the Founder and Managing Director of the Irshad Centre for Hanafi Studies, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Hanafi Studies (www.johas.org), and Head of Operations at Dar al-Imam Abu Hanifa.
Dr Sohail Hanif is the Chief Executive of the National Zakat Foundation and associate lecturer at Cambridge Muslim College. He previously held the position of BA Manager and Lecturer at Cambridge Muslim College and has also held the position of Head of Sciences at Qasid Arabic Institute in Amman. He studied extensively with traditional scholars and holds a PhD from Oxford University. His PhD thesis, which explores Islamic legal epistemology, won the 2019 prize of the British Association for Islamic Studies. He has lectured widely on Islamic law and Qur’anic studies in academic, public and traditional settings.
Muhammed Yasir Shahin is a researcher at the ISAM Centre for Islamic Studies in Istanbul and a PhD student in Islamic Law. He completed his undergraduate studies at Tripoli University in Lebanon, and studied Law and Sharia at al-Azhar University in Cairo. He obtained his Master’s degree in Islamic Law at Fatih Sultan Mehmet University in Istanbul with the thesis entitled, “The Jurisprudential Difference Between the Hanafi Jurists of Iraq and the Transoxiana”. Muhammed Shahin pursues research about Hanafi approaches to both fiqh and usul al-fiqh, and studies fundamental manuscripts that belong to the Hanafi school. He has edited several rare manuscripts, such as al-Qudurī’s (d. 428/1037) al-Taqrīb.
Dr Salman Younas’ research focuses on Islamic law in the classical and modern periods. Dr Younas graduated from Stony Brook University with a degree in Political Science and Religious Studies. After completing his undergraduate degree, he moved to the Middle East where he spent half a decade studying Arabic and the traditional Islamic sciences. In 2013, Dr Younas completed his MA in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford with honours. He then went on to complete a DPhil in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford in 2018. He was previously a researcher at the Oxford Department of International Development and the Hamad bin Jassim Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.
