Dr. Salman Younas
is a scholar of Islamic studies specializing in classical Islamic law, the history of legal institutions, legal philosophy, and contemporary Islamic legal thought. At Cambridge Muslim College, he serves as the Programme Lead for Contextual Islamic Studies & Leadership and is a faculty member at the Qalam Seminary, where he assists in training students in the Takhassus (Specialization) in Fiqh and Ifta.

He earned his BA in Political Science and Religious Studies from Stony Brook University. He later moved to England to pursue advanced graduate studies at the University of Oxford, where he completed an MSt (2014) and earned his DPhil (2018). His doctoral dissertation focused on the formation and evolution of the early Ḥanafī legal school during the 9th and 10th centuries, specifically examining the emergence of authority within the school.

Dr. Younas has a background in traditional Islamic scholarship, having studied the Islamic sciences—including legal methodology, creed, Hadith, and Arabic—under scholars in Jordan and North America. Prior to his current roles, he served as the Hamad bin Jassim Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and worked as a researcher at the Oxford Department of International Development.