Abdul Hussein, Arif

Education: Madrassah Syed Al- Khoei (MSK, London), Hawza Ilmiyyah (Qom, Iran)
Specialty: Islamic Law, Philosophy and Theosophy

Born in 1964 in Uganda, his family moved to the United Kingdom in 1972. He studied at Madrassah Syed Al- Khoei, London and graduated with Honours in 1988. He also taught Grammar, Logic, Islamic Law and Usul al-Fiqh at MSK, London, 1987-9. He then went to Iran for further Arabic and Islamic Studies and received his training at Hawza Ilmiyyah between 1989-93. He also attended private training and research studies with leading scholars of Qum between 1990 and 1994. At the same time he taught grammar, logic and usul al-fiqh in Qum. He returned to the UK to establish the Institute and he has been the Director and Senior Lecturer in Usul al-Fiqh and Islamic Philosophy since 1994. He received graduate training in Usul al-Fiqh and Islamic Law from 1994 until 2000 under Ayatullah H. Amini in the U.K. He has also been a lecturer in Qur'anic Studies and Science of Hadith at the Islamic College in London 1999-2000.