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Dr. Samir Mahmoud

Dr. Samir Mahmoud is currently Academic Director of Usul Academy (www.usul.academy).

He is also Lecturer on the Diploma in Islamic Psychology at the Cambridge Muslim College.

Recently he was Assistant Professor at the Lebanese American University. He has a BA (Hons) in Anthropology & Politics with a focus on multicultural theory and comparative religion, and an MA in Architectural History, Theory & Urban Design with a focus on the traditional townscape from the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. He also holds an MPhil in Theology & Religious Studies with a focus on comparative philosophy and aesthetics. He completed a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Dr. Timothy Winter (Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad).

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The secrets and spirituality of prayer in light of the hadith of the Prophet (PBUH) where he said “prayer is the ascent of the believer” because our prayer is our mi’raj. In one sense it means that everytime you go to prayer you asc
In the river of life, in the presence of al-Hayy (The Living One), duality is overcome. If in daily consciousness of forgetfulness (ghafla) there is a subject and an object, an ‘I’ and an ‘it,’ in the eternal conscio
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Given Islam’s claim to be a primordial religion that encompasses all religious forms, it cannot create any specific image of the Divine or the Sacred except in the Imagination. Why the Imagination? Imagination is perpetual flux; it is the onl

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The purification of self (Tazkiyat al-Nafs) is an extremely important approach to perfecting the human condition and actualizing the state of being God’s vicegerent on earth. The term tazkiyah in the Arabic language means purification of something from impurities, and its growth, development and perfection.

Education

 

Dr. Mahmoud has a BA in Anthropology & Politics with a focus on multicultural theory and comparative religion (Honours) and an MA in Architectural History, Theory & Urban Design both from the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia.

He also holds an MPhil in Theology & Religious Studies (Islamic Studies) with a focus on comparative philosophy and a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Cambridge.

Dr. Mahmoud is a former Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-14) in the Arts & Humanities Initiative at the American University of Beirut and a Postdoctoral Research Associate (2012-2013) at the University of Oxford. In 2011-2012 he was Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, Boston.

 

Awards

 

• Sir Moses & Lady Findlay Long Vacation Travel Grant

  • Bethune-Baker Fund

  • Cambridge Commonwealth Trust PhD Bursary Scholarship

  • Cambridge Commonwealth Trust MPhil Bursary Scholarship

  • International Workshop Scholarship Award

  • Commissioner Hoffman Scholarship Award

  • Sol Encel Prize

  • Zappia Prize