Panel Members

Mufti Zubair Butt

Chair
Mufti Muhammed Zubair Butt is British born and committed the Holy Qur’an to memory at the age of 16 before going onto receiving Ijazahs in the ten variant recitals of the Holy Qur’an at the Institute of Islamic Education, Dewsbury, UK. He has studied traditional Islamic sciences, including Arabic language and literature, Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh, Hadith, Usul al-Hadith, Tafseer, Usul al-Tafseer, and completed the Shahaadah al-‘Aalamiyyah at Darul Uloom Karachi, Pakistan in 1995. Read more…

Mufti Barkatulla

Mufti is a Senior Imam (cleric) in London and Lecturer on Islamic Finance at a Community College. He is a prominent Islamic Shariah law scholar with a strong background in economics and finance. Trained extensively both in traditional Islamic and modern Western educational traditions, Mufti has served UK Muslims as a community worker and Sharia Judge at Islamic Sharia Council, London. Previously Mufti had developed Islamic Sharia information databases on CD-Rom and recently hosted live phone-in shows on community TV channels. Read more…

Mufti Muhammed Ibn Adam Al-Kawthari

Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari is a young traditionally trained scholar who studied in different parts of the world. British born and bred, he memorized the Qur’an at the age of nine, and initially studied the Arabic Language and various other traditional Islamic Sciences at Darul Uloom, Bury, UK, and thus received authorizations (ijazas) in various books including the six major books of Hadith. He also took part in a one year course of specialization in the science of giving legal verdicts (Iftaa). He also travelled to Karachi, Pakistan, Read more…

Imam Abu Eesa Niamatullah

Imam Abu Eesa is a lecturer in Islamic law, hadith and social interactions as both a senior instructor for the AlMaghrib Institute as well as for the Prophetic Guidance organisation. He is a member of the Al-Qalam Shari‘ah Scholar Panel. Imam Abu Eesa read Pharmacy, Anthropology and the Islamic Sciences in both Muslim and non-Muslim countries and teaches students through his personal writings, circles and seminars.  Read more…

Shaykh Abdul Qayyum

Shaykh Abdul Qayyum is one of Britain’s best known scholars, being the senior Imam for many years at the East London Mosque in Whitechapel, London, which holds the UK’s largest Friday congregational prayer service with the weekly attendance regularly exceeding 4,000 worshippers. Read more…

Shaykh Haytham Tamim

Shaykh Haytham Tamim is the senior lecturer and resident scholar at Utrujj, a British non profit Islamic educational foundation. He has studied Islamic law for over 16 years, and has received accreditation in interpretation and sciences of the Qur’an, Prophetic sayings (hadith) and jurisprudence (fiqh) from scholars of As-Sham. Read more…