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Abdullah al Andalusi
Abdullah is a former Christian who embraced Islam at a young age, and has studied Islam in depth since he was 18. He also has an academic background in Computer Science. Abdullah has had a long experience in working for Islamic intellectual revival and the establishment of Islamic shariah in the Muslim world.
His activities involve speaking at community centres, universities, colleges and appearances on various TV programmes. He is also experienced in debating, and has debated extensively with Atheists, Secularists and Christians on a variety of platforms, including public, TV and radio.
Abdullah's main interests involve:
PsychologyAnthropologyIslamic SciencesSociologyClassical Islamic rational philosophyPolitics - current affairs and political theory
Abdullah is a prolific writer, and contributes to his web page, this can be viewed here:
Nazli Ali
Was born in London and grew up in the UK and Saudi. She is of Indian/Pakistani background. She is well travelled and lived in various countries. At university she studied Pharmacology and then Nutrition. In the near future she intends to do a PhD in Islamic studies and complete an Alimah course. She has an interest in charity, public relations, interfaith dialogue, fitness & health and alternative medicine. She has worked with the three faiths forum in interfaith and delivers Islamic presentations at schools and other public institutions.
She is also working on a project to engage the Muslim and non Muslim communities to engage, dialogue, share and understand one another to promote community cohesion so as to better society. She also organises various events to benefit the community.
Nazli maintains a website that promotes community engagement, activism and positive social networking. Her site can be viewed here:
Paul A Williams
Paul is a former Christian who converted to Islam 3 years ago. He has studied both theology and philosophy at Birkbeck and Heythrop college at the University of London.
Paul research includes (but is not limited to) biblical studies, particularly the development of Christology, the historical Jesus and New Testament studies. He is also competent in biblical Greek.
Paul has been engaged a number of interfaith dialogues with various denominations of Christians. He is an accomplished speaker in Muslim-Christian discourse and gives a number of lectures in Regents Park Mosque on the subject.
He actively blogs on Islam and Christianity and his writings can be viewed here:
Sami Zaatari
Sami Zaatari is an experienced speaker for Muslim-Christian apologetics. He has been involved in the field of Islamic apologetics for the past 3 years, writing hundreds of responses to christian polemics as well articles in defense of Islam. Sami's activites then progressed to public moderated debates two years later. He has currently completed his Creative writing degree in London.
Sami has been engaged in several debates in the US as well as in the UK. He has debated numerous Christian apologists including Dr James White of Alpha and Omega ministries, as well as Rob Scot of St Helens, London and many others.
Sami's interests include:
Muslim-Christian apologetics
Politics and current affairs
Theist-Atheist polemics
Islamic Studies
Sami maintains a webpage resource for Muslim-Christian apologetics, as well as his discourses with atheist and secular modernist ideas. His site can be viewed here:
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