Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad (or in the Academy Dr. Timothy J. Winter) needs little or no introduction. Scholar, educator, lecturer, translator, publisher, activist, author, and imam, he is the founder and dean of Cambridge Muslim College and the driving force behind the construction and establishment of the Cambridge Mosque. And this is apart from his professorial responsibilities at Cambridge University and a myriad of other activities.

Along with Michael Sugich and Peter Sanders, Shaykh Abdal Hakim spent years in the company of Habib ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad and other contemporary sages.