Authentic scholarship for the modern world

Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq at-Turkmānī

Founder & Head of Scholarly Affairs

A scholar and researcher in the Islamic sciences, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq specialises in hadith authentication, fiqh, and the editing of classical manuscripts. He studied under leading scholars of hadith and founded the Centre for Studies in the Interpretation of Islam in the UK.

• BA in Islamic Studies — Jāmiʿah Salafiyyah, Islamabad
• Author of 17 published scholarly works
• Naif International Award for Sunnah & Islamic Studies (2010)
• Specialist in Ḥadīth, Fiqh & Manuscript Editing

Ustadh Emran Ahmed

Founder & Chief Executive

Founder and chief executive of International Islamic College. A graduate of the traditional Islamic sciences with formal training in Qirāʾāt, he has served communities as an imam and head teacher for over a decade, bridging classical learning with modern education.

• Ijāzah in Ḥadīth — Shaykh ʿAbd al-Muḥsin al-Qāsim, Masjid al-Nabawī
• Traditional Islamic Studies & Qirāʾāt
• Postgraduate Teaching qualification — Islamic Education
• Imam & Head Teacher · 10+ years

Shaykh Prof. Dr. Zainul Abideen Bilafreej

Member, al-Majlis al-Istishārī — Advisory Board of Scholars

A muhaddith and professor of the hadith sciences, born and raised in Rabat, where he memorised the Qur'an as a child beside the Grand Mosque. For more than three decades he has taught, examined and supervised research in the Kitāb and Sunnah at universities in Morocco and the Haramain — and he joins the College as the first announced member of its international advisory board of scholars.

• Professor of Higher Education — Hassan II University, Casablanca
• Visiting Professor — the Islamic University of Madinah
• Formerly of the Department of Kitāb & Sunnah — Umm al-Qurā University, Makkah
• Judge, Prince Naif Prize for the Sunnah & Islamic Studies

Shaykh Prof. Dr. ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAbdullāh al-Qaryūṭī

Member, al-Majlis al-Istishārī — Advisory Board of Scholars

A muḥaddith and professor of the ḥadīth sciences, born in Zarqāʾ, Jordan, in 1954 to a family from Qaryūt near Nablus. He took his doctorate in the Sunnah in 1983 and taught for decades in the Department of Sunnah at Imam Muḥammad ibn Saʿūd Islamic University in Riyadh — and he joins the College as the second announced member of its international advisory board of scholars.

• Professor of Ḥadīth — Imam Muḥammad ibn Saʿūd Islamic University, Riyadh
• Doctorate in the Sunnah and its sciences, 1983
• Companion and student of Shaykh al-Albānī from 1972; studied under Ibn Bāz and al-ʿAbbād in Madinah
• Editor of Ibn Ḥajar's Taʿrīf Ahl al-Taqdīs; author of al-Isnād min al-Dīn