Dr Talal Al-Azem is lecturer in Islam.  He obtained his BA in history and Near Eastern studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his MSt and DPhil from the University of Oxford, Faculty of Oriental Studies in 2011. He was lecturer in Islamic history at the Faculty of Oriental Studies frp, 2011–14, was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship at Pembroke College, Oxford in 2012, and was a research officer on the ERC-funded IMPAcT (Islamic philosophy and theology) project from 2014-15. His research focuses on social and intellectual history of the Muslim world, with particular attention to institutions of law and learning in the medieval and early modern Near East.

He is the translator of “Prayers of Occasions”, a handbook of sunnah prayers, and author of “Rule-Formulation and Binding Precedent in the Madhhab-Law Tradition”, a study of how rules were determined in the madhhabs.