Zahed Fettah

Zahed Fettah is a contemporary British scholar based in Birmingham, England, where he serves as an imam and khatib and as a Research Fellow at the Ibn Rushd Centre for Islamic research. A hafiz of the Qurʾan, he combines Western academic training with a traditional course of study. He holds a law degree (LLB) from the University of Birmingham, a Shariʿa qualification from the European Institute of Human Sciences, and an MA in Islamic Studies from Newman University, after which he undertook postgraduate study specializing in ifta, the science of issuing fatwas. He holds ijazahs in several Islamic disciplines, principally in Hanbali fiqh and in hadith. For a number of years he has taught fiqh, hadith, and tafsir at mosques and Islamic centers, and has written essays on a range of fiqhi and Islamic questions. Among English readers he is best known, together with Shahrul Hussain, for the 40 Hadith series, a set of accessible volumes each gathering forty narrations from one of the six canonical collections: Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, and the four Sunan of Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, al-Nasaʾi, and Ibn Maja, with clear translation and commentary for general readers.