Haitham al-Haddad

هيثم الحداد

British Muslim scholar of Palestinian origin who grew up in Makkah; he took a PhD at SOAS, University of London, with a thesis submitted in 2010 on aspects of Sunni Muslim minority fiqh, holds a civil engineering degree from Sudan and studied in Medina; he is chair, operations advisor and a trustee of the Muslim Research and Development Foundation (MRDF), sits on the board of advisors of the Islamic Sharia Council in Britain, and appears as a television presenter and lecturer on Islamic channels.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Scholar · Jurist · teacher
Region
al-Andalus & Europe · Levant & Iraq
Identifiers
Wikidata
Review
Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it

Place in the story

    Unknown (unknown)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    Summary

    Haitham al-Haddad is a British Muslim television presenter and Islamic scholar of Palestinian origin who grew up in Makkah. 1 He sits on the boards of advisors of Islamic organisations in the United Kingdom, including the Islamic Sharia Council, and is the chair and operations advisor and a trustee of the Muslim Research and Development Foundation. 1 Wikidata records his religion only as Islam generically. 2

    Education

    He gained a PhD at SOAS, University of London, with a thesis submitted in 2010 entitled "A critical analysis of selected aspects of Sunni Muslim minority fiqh, with particular reference to contemporary Britain"; in Medina he studied with a student of Ibn al-Uthaymeen, and he also obtained a civil engineering degree in Sudan. 1

    Positions and faith

    Read this section as the report of the sources, not as a museum ruling.

    The English Wikipedia infobox gives his denomination as Sunni, a single unreferenced value in one source family, and Wikidata gives his religion only as Islam generically. 1 2 His thesis topic is a research subject and his Medina teacher's affiliation is his teacher's, not attestations of his own school. Under the two-source rule, and because doubt leaves a value unclassified, his faith is recorded as unknown.

    References

    • The sources named by identifier above, recorded under data/source/.
    • Later translations and amendments of this article to be reviewed periodically with explicit dates.

    Sources

    1. Haitham al-Haddad — English Wikipedia
    2. Haitham al-Haddad — Wikidata Q1832022
    Cite this page

    islam.museum contributors. “Haitham al-Haddad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/haitham-al-haddad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.

    Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

    Wing

    People

    Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story.