Dr. Talal Al-Azem
specialized in Aqīdah (Islamic theology) and Hanafi Fiqh (jurisprudence). He served as the Mohammed Noah Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and held the position of Islamic Centre Lecturer in Classical Islam at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Theology and Religion.

He completed his BA in History and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, before earning his MSt and DPhil (2011) from the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Oriental Studies. His traditional Islamic education included studies in Syria and Turkey.

At Oxford, he worked as both Fellow Librarian at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and as a lecturer in Islam. Earlier in his career, he taught as a lecturer in Islamic History at the Faculty of Oriental Studies (2011-14), received a Junior Research Fellowship at Pembroke College (2012), and participated as a research officer on the ERC-funded IMPAcT (Islamic Philosophy and Theology) project (2014-15).