Meet our international faculty team comprised of scholars who have received the highest level of training in both traditional and western academic settings.
Shaykh Arif Abdul Hussain
Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies & Director of AMI

Ayatollah Professor Rahim Nobahar
Professor of Islamic Legal Studies
Professor Seyed Mohammad Ghari S Fatemi
Professor of Comparative Human Rights and Islamic Studies & Head of the Department of Quranic Studies

Professor Ali Fanaei
Professor of Islamic Studies
Dr Haidar Hobballah
Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies & Head of the Department of Hadith and History
Dr Sayyid Jaafar Fadlallah
Lecturer in Islamic Legal Studies
Dr Hashim Bata
Lecturer in Islamic Legal Studies, Head of the Department of Islamic Legal Studies & Managing Director
Dr Ali Reza Bhojani
Associate Research Fellow
Nazmina Dhanji
Associate Lecturer in Islamic Studies
Dr Wahid Amin
Lecturer in Islamic Philosophy, Head of the Department of Philosophy and Theology & Head of Publications at AMI Press
Dr Muhammed Reza Tajri
Lecturer in Arabic & Head of the department of the Study of Comparative Religions

Shaykh Mohamed-Riaz Walji
Tutor in Islamic Studies

Mahdiyah Jaffer
Tutor in Islamic Studies

Dr Zoheir Ali Esmail
Lecturer in Islamic Mysticism & Head of the Department of Mysticism and Spirituality

Shaykh Ali Raza Khaki
Lecturer in Islamic Studies

Dr Mostafa Movahedifar
Associate Research Fellow

Dr Laurens de Rooij
Associate Lecturer in the Sociology of Islam