British, English convert father, Arab mother of Egyptian-Sudanese-Moroccan heritage of Abbasi and Hasani ancestry. This delineates that Al-Abbas b. Abdal Muttalib, the uncle of the Prophet, and Sayyidina al-Hasan, the grandson of the Prophet, were both ancestors.
Fellow at the Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge
Muqaddam (authorised representative) in the tariqa (Sufi order) of Shaykh Seraj Hasan Hendricks, the former mufti of Cape Town. Shaykh Seraj was also khalifa (designated spiritual inheritor) of the Makkan sage Sayyid Muhammad b. Alawi al-Maliki, one of the most famous scholars of the 20th century.
Appointed as Senior Scholar of the famous Azzawia Institute of South Africa
Appointed as Council Member of the British Board of Scholars and Imams
Appointed as Member of the Academic Committee of the Tabah Foundation of Habib ‘Ali al-Jifri (one of the great scholars of Yemen, and known throughout the Muslim world).
Appointed as professorial fellow of Cambridge Muslim College by Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad / Dr Timothy J. Winter of Cambridge University, one of Western Islam’s most prominent scholars.
Appointed as professor at the Bayan Islamic Graduate School in Islamic Thought, Politics, and International Affairs
Fellow of Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Historical Society due to his academic work
Academic career included posts at Harvard University, Cambridge University, American University in Cairo
Author of 10 books, including two on Tasawwuf
Works and lives between London, Cairo, and Washington DC.
