Dr Ramon (Ibrahim) Harvey, Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Ebrahim College, won The British Imams & Scholars Contributions & Achievements’s award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Research and Education’.

Dr Harvey could not be there to receive the award in person as he was presenting a paper in Rome at the time. This is the video message he recorded as his acceptance speech.

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Dr Ramon (Ibrahim) Harvey

Dr Harvey received his MA and then PhD in Islamic Studies from SOAS, University of London, specialising in linguistic and thematic interpretation of the Qur’an under the supervision of Professor M. A. S. Abdel Haleem. Alongside his academic training, he has spent a number of years studying with Muslim scholars in the UK, as well as intensive programmes at Al-Azhar in Cairo and the Hijaz. He received his ‘alimiyya from Al-Salam Institute in London after examination by Shaykh Akram Nadwi. He has previously worked as a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS, lecturing in Qur’an and Hadith, and as a Research Fellow at the Cambridge Muslim College. He has published on the history of Qur’anic qira’at and is completing his first book entitled The Qur’an and the Just Society with Edinburgh University Press. His current research interests are Qur’anic hermeneutics, Maturidi theology and legal theory, contemporary ethical theory and political philosophy.

At Ebrahim College, Dr Harvey lectures on early Muslim sects, Western approaches to the Qur’an and Hadith, and the history of political philosophy, as well as teaching academic writing and research methods. He is also closely involved with the academic development of the College and its research division.