12 Facts About Timothy Winter

Timothy Winter's work includes publications on Islamic theology, modernity, and Anglo-Muslim relations, and he has translated several Islamic texts.

Timothy Winter is the Founder and Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College, Aziz Foundation Professor of Islamic studies at both Cambridge Muslim College and Ebrahim College, Director of Studies at Wolfson College and the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer of Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at University of Cambridge.

Timothy Winter's father was the famous architect John Winter and his mother was a painter.

Timothy Winter was educated at Westminster School and graduated with a double-first in Arabic from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1983.

Timothy Winter then went on to study at Al Azhar University in Cairo but did not graduate with any formal qualification.

Timothy Winter has engaged in private study with individual scholars in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

Timothy Winter serves as the secretary of the Muslim Academic Trust.

Timothy Winter is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology and author of Bombing without Moonlight, which in 2007 was awarded the King Abdullah I Prize for Islamic Thought.

Timothy Winter decries the failure of extremists to adhere to the classical canons of Islamic law and theology and denounces their fatwas.

Timothy Winter unequivocally rejects suicide bombing and considers the killing of noncombatants as always forbidden, noting that some sources consider it worse than murder.

Timothy Winter is equally critical of Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi ideology, which he believes gives extremists a theological pretext for their extremism and violence.

Timothy Winter has consistently been included in The 500 Most Influential Muslims list published annually by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought and was ranked in 2012 as the 50th most influential.