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Abdassamad Clarke is a scholar, translator and author from Carrickfergus in Ulster. He was formally educated in Mathematics and Physics at Edinburgh University and subsequently studied Arabic, tajwid and Islamic sciences in Cairo. He accepted Islam in 1973 at the hands of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi. In the 1980s he served as secretary to the Imam of the Dublin Mosque, Shaykh Yahya Muhammad al-Hussein, and in the early 1990s served as imam khatib of the Norwich Mosque, where he later served again as imam and teacher. During his time in Dublin he wrote as a freelance journalist for the Irish Times, Irish Press, Sunday Press, The Phoenix, Common Ground and The Aisling, contributing articles on Islam, banking, usury, and alternative currencies. He has translated a number of classical Arabic works, including chapters on the Khulafa ar-Rashidun from as-Suyuti's Tarikh al-Khulafa', al-Nawawi's The Complete Forty Hadith, and The Compendium of Knowledge and Wisdom. He co-authored with the late Abdarrahman I. Doi the second edition of Shariah - Islamic Law. He has served as Dean and Rector of the Muslim Faculty of Advanced Studies in Norwich.
