Dr. Mohammad Khalid Husain is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Coordinator of Islamic Studies at Effat University, Jeddah. He holds a PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Manchester. He has taught extensively at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Arabic and Islamic Studies at both the University of Manchester and Effat University.
Dr. Husain's research spans pre-modern Islamic intellectual history, Qurʾānic hermeneutics, and Sunnī legal theory, with particular emphasis on the Ḥanafī tradition. One of his earliest research collaborations involved analysing modernist Qurʾānic translation and interpretation for Brill. Since then, his work has included a monograph-in-progress on the development of Ḥanafī-Sunnī legal theory in the late Ottoman period; a series of academic seminars at the University of Manchester on pre-modern and modern approaches to Qurʾānic studies; and critical translations of selected nineteenth-century Sunnī-Ḥanafī legal treatises.
His recent publications include a book chapter on the Islamic notion of taʿāwun (co-operation), a peer-reviewed study on the interfaith initiatives of the Muslim World League, and a co-authored article on the linguistic reception of the Qurʾān. He has presented and contributed to numerous international conferences and is regularly invited to supervise, examine, and externally review MA and PhD theses at universities worldwide.
Dr Husain serves as a reviewer for several international journals and acts as an academic adviser to multiple organisations, including Sawt al-Ḥikmah and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. He holds professional certifications, including Certified Sharīʿa Adviser and Auditor (AAOIFI) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE, UK). He is currently leading a collaborative research project on modes of Qurʾānic recitation and their impact on Qurʾānic translation.
