List of British Muslims

• Haroon Ahmed Emeritus Professor of Microelectronics at the Cavendish Laboratory, the Physics Department of the University of Cambridge • Sara Ahmed – Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths and academic working at the intersection of feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory and postcolonialism • Shabbir Akhtar Honorary Research Fellow, Faculty of Theology and Religions at University of Oxford • Ash Amin Head of Geography at Cambridge University • Ali Ansari university professor at the University of St Andrews • Khizar Humayun Ansari – academic who was awarded an OBE in 2002 for his work in the field of race and ethnic relations. • Sarah Ansari – professor of history at Royal Holloway, University of London • Tipu Zahed Aziz professor of neurosurgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford; lecturer at Magdalen College, Oxford and Imperial College London medical school • Reza Banakar – professor of socio-legal studies at the University of Westminster, London • Quassim Cassam – Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick • Abbas Edalat university professor at Imperial College London • Mohammed Ghanbari professor at the University of Essex • Joel Hayward – New Zealand-born British scholar of early Islamic history, especially the biography of Muhammad • Dilwar Hussain research fellow at The Islamic Foundation in Leicester; co-authored the 2004 book British Muslims Between Assimilation and Segregation; is on the Home Office's committee tackling radicalisation and extremism • Musharraf Hussain – scientist, educator and religious scholar, the Chief executive of the Karimia Institute Nottingham. Awarded an OBE by Her Majesty the Queen in 2008 for his services to community relations. • Saiful Islam – Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Bath and a recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award. • Naila Kabeer – Social economist, research fellow and writer. She works primarily on poverty, gender and social policy issues. Her research interests include gender, poverty, social exclusion, labour markets and livelihoods, social protection, focussed on South and South East Asia. • Amir Kassam – visiting professor in the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development at the University of Reading • Syma Khalid - biophysicist who is a professor of Computational Biophysics in Chemistry at the University of Southampton. • Mushtaq Khan – Heterodox economist and Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies. His work focuses on the economics of poor countries, including contributions to the field of institutional economics and South Asian development. • Yasmin Khan – historian of British India and associate professor of history at The University of Oxford • Ehsan Masood science writer, journalist and broadcaster; editor of Research Fortnight and Research Europe; teaches International Science Policy at Imperial College London • Azra Meadows OBE honorary lecturer in the Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences at The University of Glasgow • Ali Mobasheri associate professor and reader at University of Surrey • Tariq Modood Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy at the University of Bristol • Kalbe Razi Naqvi – British Pakistani physicist, who has been ordinarily resident in Norway since 1977, working as a professor of biophysics in the Norwegian University of Science and Technology • Nazneen Rahman – geneticist who specialises in cancer and heads up the Cancer Genetics Clinical Unit at the Royal Marsden. Her research has seen success in identifying genes that cause cancer particularly in women and children. • Ziauddin Sardar – scholar, writer and cultural critic • Ghulam Sarwar Director of the Muslim Educational Trust; writer on Islam in English, wrote the first English textbook, Islam: Beliefs and Teachings, for madrasah students in Britain, which is used worldwide in religious education classes, especially in British schools • Salman SayyidProfessor of Social Theory and Decolonial Thought at the University of Leeds • Ghayasuddin Siddiqui academic and political activist • Jawed Siddiqi professor emeritus of software engineering at Sheffield Hallam University and political activist • Mona Siddiqui – University of Edinburgh Professor of Islamic Studies a Public Understanding; regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, The Times, Scotsman, The Guardian, and The Herald • Azim Surani – developmental biologist who has been Marshall–Walton Professor at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge since 1992, and Director of Germline and Epigenomics Research since 2013. • Saeed Vaseghi professor at Brunel University ==Business and finance==