Dr Muhammad Mansur Ali
Lecturer in Islamic Studies | Cardiff universityDr. Mansur Ali studied classical Islamic studies and Arabic at Darul Uloom Bury, UK and Al-Azhar University Cairo, Egypt. He then completed his postgraduate studies in Middle Eastern Studies (Hadith studies) at the University of Manchester researching for a PhD dissertation on the ‘Importance of the Isnad in Al-Tirmidhi’s Sunan’. He is interested in Hadith studies as well as applied Islamic theology and ethics. He has authored a number of books and academic journal articles on the subject of Hadith, chaplaincy, drug addiction and Islamic theology, and practical theology. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Khatib at the Darul Isra Mosque, Cardiff, UK. He is also recipient of the 2015 BISCA awards
Education and qualifications
Postgraduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (PCUTL), Cardiff University.
PhD Middle Eastern Studies (Islamic), “Al-Tirmidhi and the Role of the Isnad in His Sunan”, University of Manchester, supervised by Dr Ronald P. Buckley. Funded by Manchester University ‘Graduate Teaching Fellowship Award’.
MA Middle Eastern Studies (Islamic), “The Methodology of Western Scholars in the Study of Hadith Literature”, University of Manchester, supervised by Dr Andreas Christmann.
BA Islamic Theology, Al-Azhar University, Cairo Egypt.
Advanced Certificate in Classical Islamic and Arabic Studies. Darul Uloom Al-Arabiyya Al-Islamiyya Bury, UK.
Career overview
2015- Present: Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Cardiff University
2012-2015: Post-doctoral Jameel fellow in Islamic Studies, Cardiff University
2011- 2012: Post-doctoral fellow, Cambridge Muslim College
2010 – 2011: Research associate, Cardiff University
2007-2010: Muslim chaplain, Ashworth High Security Hospital, Liverpool
2005-2008: Graduate teaching fellow, University of Manchester.
Other academic activities
Reviewer for a number of academic journals
Honours and awards
BISCA 2015 (British Imams and Scholars Contribution Award) for best contribution in teaching and research. 2015
Committees and reviewing
- 2015- Present: Religious and Theological Studies, years 2 and 3 Senior tutor
- 2012- Present: School of History, Archaeology and Religion Equality and Diversity Committee
Dr Dawud Bone
Scholar of Islamic Education and Interfaith RelationsEducation
DPhil. University of Warwick with dissertation on the teaching of other faiths in UK Darul Ulooms and Masters level modules in PSHE and RE
Career overview
Former Course Leader MEd Islamic Education and teacher of Research Methods, in partnership with the Newman University Birmingham
Former Stone Ashdown Director of the Centre for the Study of Muslim Jewish Relations at the Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths
Former Research Fellow at Cambridge Muslim College where he focussed particularly on Islamic Psychology for pastoral care in school and Course designer and convenor at Cambridge Muslim College
Extensive work in UK Islamic Schools including headships at Mazahirul Uloom London and Andalusia Academy Bristol
Current Research Projects:
- Islamic Psychology and its application to Pastoral Care in Muslim Faith Schools
- Islamic Perspectives on Schools as Learning organisations
- Islamic Educational Philosophy for Compulsory Education in Contemporary Britain.
Other Research Interests:
- Islamic family Law in the UK (topic of Inaugural lecture at the Woolf Institute)
- Recontextualising Islam for the UK
- Support of British Revert Muslims
Dr Fawad Khaleel
Dr Fawad Khaleel
Edinburgh Napier University
Lecturer in Accountancy and Finance – Business School Academic Lead – Online
Biography
Fawad is Lecturer in Accounting and Finance since 2015. Fawad is also Business School’s Academic Lead for Global Online Learning.
Research Interests:
Accounting numbers are not isolated from the flow of history, and they often perpetuate the reality. My research currently focuses on the philosophy of critical accounting as an ontological authority to explore the epistemology of social, political and economic practices, within societal and institutional context. I am a Victorian explorer of contemporary socio-economic inefficiencies.