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Scholar Who 'Thunders From The Pulpit'
- Abdal Hakim Murad describes himself as 'amphibious', balancing a Cambridge academic career with active pulpit work at Cambridge Mosque.
- He combines traditional seminary training with a PhD and university teaching.
Conversion As An Ongoing Inner Turn
- Abdal Hakim Murad recounts converting at 19 and studying in traditional madrasa seminaries for about ten years.
- He describes conversion as an ongoing inner turn, not a fixed identity swap.
The God-Shaped Void Fuels Ideological Substitutes
- Murad argues modern Europeans have a 'god-shaped' void that gets filled by ideologies or quests for vague 'authenticity.'
- Those substitutes lack transcendence and can lead to political and moral dangers.