Dr. Usama Hasan was trained in Theoretical Physics at Cambridge, in Artificial Intelligence at the University of London and in the traditional Islamic sciences at home and mosque.
He is currently Senior Lecturer in Engineering & Information Sciences at Middlesex University and a voluntary, part-time imam at Tawhid
Mosque in East London. He is also Director of the City Circle, a London-based network of Muslim professionals, and an astronomer, having worked as Planetarium Lecturer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, 2006-8.
Hasan has also taught traditional Islamic sciences at the mosque and on campus for the last eighteen years, and he has published translations of numerous books, including Character of the People of the Qur'an, by Imam al-Ajurri; The Concise Legacy and Tolerance Within Islam, both by Imam Ibn Taymiyyah; Hajj - The Journey of Love by Imam Ibn al-Qayyim and The Prophet's Prayer Described by the late Shaykh al-Albani.
