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Timothy John Winter born 15 May , also known as Abdal Hakim Murad , is an English academic, theologian and Islamic scholar [ 5 ] [ 6 ] who is a proponent of Islamic neo-traditionalism. His work includes publications on Islamic theology , modernity , and Anglo-Muslim relations , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and he has translated several Islamic texts.

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In he started the Cambridge Mosque Project which raised money for the construction of a purpose-built mosque. The Cambridge Central Mosque opened on 24 April as the first purpose-built Mosque in Cambridge, and the first eco-mosque in Europe. Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad grew up in Highgate. His father was the famous architect John Winter and his mother was a painter.

He was educated at Westminster School and graduated with a double- first in Arabic from Pembroke College, Cambridge , in He has also engaged in private study with individual scholars in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. In Murad helped to open the Cambridge Muslim College , an institute designed to train British imams. His book reviews sometimes appear in the Times Literary Supplement.

Murad is the founder and leader of the Cambridge Central Mosque project [ 29 ] which has developed a new purpose built mosque in Cambridge to cater for up to 1, worshipers. Murad has criticised the term " Islamophobia " for its implication that hostility to Islam and Muslims is based on race or tribalistic fear rather than enmity against their religion itself.

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Murad is a traditionalist and considers the views of extremists like al-Qaeda as religiously illegitimate and inauthentic. He decries the failure of extremists to adhere to the classical canons of Islamic law and theology and denounces their fatwas. According to Murad, Osama bin Laden and his right-hand man Ayman al-Zawahiri were entirely un-Islamic, unqualified vigilantes who violate basic Islamic teachings.

Murad is critical of Western foreign policy for fuelling anger and resentment in the Muslim world.