Founder & Lecturer

The School of Classical Studies is founded by Dr. Badreldeen Ismail al-Husayni. Dr. Badreldeen is an Islamic Scholar from Egypt who spent over fifteen years studying under the leading elite minds of Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Ahsa’. He is educated in the field of Classical Islamic Sciences, with expertise in a vast array of subjects, demonstrated by the fact that he has received traditional ijazas from more than thirty prominent scholars including Shaykh Muhammad Abd al-Raheem Badreldeen, Shaykh Hassan al-Shafi‘i and Shaykh Ibrahim Khalifah.

Dr. Badreldeen completed his PhD at The University of Edinburgh in Classical Islamic Theology and Sufism. His earlier undergraduate and postgraduate education was pursued at the University of Cairo in Arabic Language, Arabic Literature and Islamic Philosophical Theology, then at SOAS, University of London, in Qur’anic studies and medieval Arabic Theology. Dr. Badreldeen's teaching experience has spanned over 15 years. He has been lecturing and teaching the various disciplines of Arabic and Islamic studies intellectual traditions, in several academic institutions in Egypt and the UK, including Cambridge Muslim College, with the core of his teaching covering Qur’anic exegetical methods, Hadith studies, Kalam and legal theory.

bi@theschoolofclassicalstudies.co.uk