Dr. Mansur Ali

Dr. Mansur Ali is a traditionally trained Muslim scholar, imam, author and educator. His Islamic learning spans three worlds of scholarship (South Asian Dars e Nizami, Azhari and Western academia). Traditionally trained at Darul Uloom Birmingham, Darul Uloom Bury, and Al-Azhar University in Cairo, he pursued postgraduate studies (MA and PhD) at the University of Manchester, where he wrote a PhD thesis on the Sunan of Imam al-Tirmidhi.
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His teaching career oscillates equally between traditional Islamic seminaries and Western academia. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cardiff University, where he teaches on Islam and ethics. Having supervised five doctoral students to completion, he is currently supervising six PhD students. Furthermore, he has taught traditional Islamic texts, including Mishkat, Hidaya, Sharh al-Aqaid al-Nasafiyya, Nur al-Anwar, and Nuzhat al-Nazar. 

He is interested in Hadith studies, Islamic legal theory, fiqh al-fatawa, Muslim chaplaincy, and the intersection of Islam and bioethics. Currently, he is researching various aspects of organ transplantation and Islam.

He is a Council member of the British Board of Scholars and Imam (BBSI), a member of the British Association of Islamic Studies (BRAIS), a member of the advisory board at Cambridge Muslim College, a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a khatib at the Dar ul Isra Mosque in Cardiff.