Speakers

	VIDEO KEYNOTE by Professor Dr Timothy Winter, also known as Sheikh Abdal-Hakim Murad, is currently the Sheikh Zayed Lecturer of Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, and Director of Studies in Theology at Wolfson College. He has published and contributed to numerous academic works on Islam, including the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, with his best-known works being his translations from Imam Al-Ghazali’s Ihya (1995), a series of aphorisms (Commentary on the Eleventh Contentions, 2012), and his most recent book, Travelling Home: Essays on Islam in Europe (2020). He is founder of the Cambridge Muslim College, which has offered Diploma courses for British Dar Al-Ulum graduates and now has an accredited BA programme offered to graduate religious leaders who are confident, competent, and conversant with the issues of the age. He is a much sought-after speaker and contributes regularly to the media and is fluent in several languages. Hundreds of YouTube videos of his lectures and talks form an important source of knowledge for English-speaking Muslims worldwide. His Paradigms of Leadership lecture series focuses on exemplary figures in Islamic history and has proved to be particularly popular. Professor Winter was the main force behind the decade-long project to build the Cambridge Central Mosque, Europe’s first eco-mosque, which opened in April 2019 and has become an iconic standard for all places of worship in the country.
	Professor Datuk Dr Osman Bakar is one of the contemporary Muslim world’s most prominent philosophers. Holder of the al-Ghazali Chair of Epistemology and Civilisational Studies and Renewal at ISTAC-IIUM (Malaysia), he is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Malaya, a fellow at both the Centre for Civilisational Dialogue (University of Malaya) and Doshisha University (Japan), and former President of the Islamic Academy of Sciences (Malaysia). He holds a doctorate in Islamic philosophy from Temple University (1981) and has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard University (1992). The author of 15 books and over 250 articles on Islamic thought and civilization, his most notable works include Tawhid and Science (1991), Islam and Civilizational Dialogue (1997), Classification of Knowledge in Islam (1998), and Islamic Civilisation and the Modern World (2015). Recognized globally, Professor Osman has been included within the list of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world several times.
	Professor Dr Andrew Peacock is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research interests encompass the intellectual history of the pre-modern Islamic world, as well as Islam in Southeast Asia and Islamic manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Malay. Recent publications include Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia (Cambridge, 2019) and Arabic Literary Culture in Southeast Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Brill, 2024), as well as the edited volume Islamisation: Comparative Perspectives from History (Edinburgh, 2017).
	Dr Khairudin Aljunied, a Senior Fellow at the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS), holds a doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London (2008). His extensive research spans multiple countries, including the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, Netherlands, and the UK. Notable publications include Colonialism Violence and Muslims in Southeast Asia (2009), Radicals: Resistance and Protest in Colonial Malaya (2015), and Shapers of Islam in Southeast Asia (2022). His recent work, Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Southeast Asian Islam in Comparative Perspective (2017), explores cosmopolitan ideals in Southeast Asia. His published papers cover diverse topics, such as the mythicization of Malcolm X and the use of religious-oriented psychology by Zakiah Daradjat.

Co-hosted by al-Ghazali Chair of Epistemology, Civilisational Studies, and Renewal (ISTAC-IIUM), Malaysia and the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology (University of St Andrews, UK).