Haidar Hobballah completed his PhD in Comparative Religions and Christian Theology at the University of Religions and Denominations in Qom, Iran. Prior to this, he spent several years studying in various seminaries and universities in Qom. He is currently the Head of the Department of Hadith and History and a Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Al-Mahdi Institute in Birmingham, UK. Alongside this, he continues to teach advanced courses (dars khārij) in various disciplines of Islamic Studies. He is the author of two dozen books and numerous articles in the fields of hadith studies, jurisprudence, legal theory, theology, philosophy, and Qurʾanic studies. He is currently working on a book on the history of hadith across different schools of thought.
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