Dr. Sohail Hanif

Dr. Sohail Hanif is the Chief Executive Officer at the National Zakat Foundation. He works on Islamic legal theory, with a focus on the Ḥanafī school of law. He received an MA and DPhil from the University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis, A Theory of Early Classical Ḥanafism: Legal Epistemology in the Hidāyah of Burhān al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 593/1197), studies the interplay of rationality and tradition in a major work of legal commentary. Sohail has also spent over a decade in Jordan, where he studied a full curriculum of Islamic sciences with traditional ‘ulamā’. He was previously the Head of Arabic Sciences at Qasid Arabic Institute in Amman, BA Program Manager and Lecturer at the Cambridge Muslim College, and an instructor in Islamic studies at Qibla Online Academy. Additionally, he has taught undergraduate classes on Modern Islam and Qur’anic studies at the University of Oxford. He has also served as Head of Research and Development at the National Zakat Foundation.