Our Instructors
Our instructors bring together scholarship, community leadership, and lived experience across the programme’s three core modules: Revelation, Reality, and Resolve.
Co-founded the Asr Initiative and currently Head of Operations at Deen Developers. He has a background in management consulting and extensive experience in community and youth work, having previously served as President of the Muslim Youth Network and Regional Manager at MEND.
Nayeem Haque
Instructor
Revelation
British medical doctor, community leader, and former President of Muslim Youth Network and the Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS).
Dr Enam Ahmod
Instructor
Reality
Founder of QuranBound & Teacher of Arabic and Quranic Studies. He spent over five years in Cairo, Egypt, studying the traditional Islamic sciences under guided scholars. He holds Ijazaat (licenses) in 7 modes of Quranic recitations and has formally studied the Arabic languages and it’s science with many teachers, with a keen focus on Quranic exegesis (Tafsir).
Ustaadh Mohammed Tahair
Instructor
Doctor by profession and student of Hanafi Fiqh and Shari’ah at W.I.S.E University. He has held leadership roles with KCL Islamic Society, FOSIS, and the Muslim Youth Network. He delivers courses for the Asr Initiative and founded the Foundations Programme and Miftah Arabic course.
Ustaadh Dr Abdus Samad Ahmed
Instructor
Revelation
Managing Director of CAGE and a leading British human rights advocate. He campaigns against abuses linked to counter-terrorism policies, defending civil liberties, due process, and privacy. His work has made him a prominent voice on justice and state accountability.
Muhammad Rabbani
Instructor
Human rights lawyer who serves as Research Director at CAGE international. He has led investigations into Pakistan, Bosnia, Kenya, Sudan, Sweden, the US & the UK. He has written & published many reports exposing the use of unlawful detention, rendition, and torture in the “War on Terror”.
Dr Asim Qureshi
Instructor
Reality
Community organiser with over a decade of experience in national and local Muslim organisations. He has held roles at MEND, East London Mosque, FOSIS, MCB and MYN, including community engagement, media, trustee and national council positions. Studied Biology with Psychology at Queen Mary University and completed his PGCE at UCL.
Aman Ali
Instructor
Reality