This beautifully made film is an introduction to the publication of Exemplars for Our Time, a nine-book biographical series profiling twentieth and twenty-first century Muslim sages whose knowledge, wisdom and beautiful character made them role models for generations of sincere seekers. Recorded at the series worldwide launch at the Bradford Literature Festival on July 2nd 2022, the film features Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, President of Zaytuna College, acclaimed photographer and series co-editor, and author and series editor Michael Sugich in an illuminating conversation on the subject of sainthood in Islam, moderated by BBC presenter and Guardian contributing writer Remona Aly.