
Trustees
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Dr Saad Ismail
Dr Saad Ismail is a General Practitioner and researcher, with current interests in analytic metaphysics and epistemology. He holds an MPhil in Philosophical Theology from the University of Oxford, a BA (Hons) in Islamic Studies from Cambridge Muslim College, and an MBChB from the University of Birmingham.
He is a co-founder of the Centre for Islam and Medicine (CIM), a UK-registered charity dedicated to advancing Islamic bioethics through research, education, and policy, where he served as a trustee for over a decade.
Dr Ismail is also a founding member of Turning SouthEast, through which he continues to support initiatives that cultivate Islamic scholarship—from grassroots learning to postgraduate research.
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Yasser Darr
Yasser Darr is presently a senior manager in the social work sector.
For the past 12 years, he has also been a committed student of the Islamic intellectual tradition, having spent time studying in both Egypt and Turkey. He also has an MA in Philosophy from the University of London, where he wrote a thesis on intentionality in Aristotelian psychology.