Dilwar Hussain

Dilwar Hussain (born 24 December 1971) is a British academic and independent consultant working on social policy, Muslim identity and Islamic reform in the modern world.

Biography

Hussain, a British Bangladeshi, studied at King's College London, graduating in 1993. He received a Master of Philosophy in religious studies from the University of Wales, Lampeter in 1999.

He is founding Chair of New Horizons in British Islam, a charity that works for reform in Muslim thought and practice, a Senior Programme Advisor to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a Research Fellow at the Lokahi Foundation and an Associate of the Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge.

He has taught courses on Islam in contemporary society and has a number of published works in the field. He has worked in academic research and policy consultancy for over 15 years, delivering contracts for private sector groups as well as government departments.

His recent research and advisory work includes: a major report on Muslims in Leicester for the Open Society Foundations; Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Inquiry on Prevent (2010); the Cambridge-Azhar Imams Training Project, University of Cambridge and FCO; steering group of the Contextualising Islam in Britain Project, University of Cambridge.

He is a Trustee of the Islamic Society of Britain, the Three Faiths Forum (3FF), the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, and Maslaha. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Faiths and Civil Society Unit at Goldsmith College, a Fellow of the Royal Foundation of St. Katharine's Contextual Theology Centre and an Associate of the think tank Demos.

Hussain was Head of the Policy Research Centre, at The Islamic Foundation (2007–2013). He was also a Commissioner at the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) (2006–2007). He served on the Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission on Urban Life and Faith (2005–2006), worked on the Preventing Extremism Together workgroups set up by the Home Office after 7 July 2005; and was co-chair of Alif-Aleph UK (2005). He has been listed in the Who's Who of British Muslims by and the 2013 British Bangladeshi Power 100.

He is a member of the Community, Voluntary and Local services committee of the Honours Committee, which nominates people for the Queen's Birthday and New Year's Honours.^[1]

Selected publications

• 'Social Policy, Cultural Integration and Faith: A Muslim Perspective’, Journal of Social Policy and Society (October 2012 Special Issue).^[2]
• ‘How did the Muslim Community Come to be Where it is Today?’ in: Tony Bayfield, Alan Race and Ataullah Siddiqui (Eds) (2012) Beyond the Dysfunctional Family: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Dialogue With Each Other and With Britain.^[3]
• British Secularism and Religion: Islam, Society and the State, co-edited book, Kube Publishing, Leicester, 2010.^[4]
• Muslims in Leicester (with research team), Open Society Institute, 2010.^[5]
• “Europe, Muslims in” entry in Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam, Oxford University Press, 2009.^[6]
• “Islam” in Zaki Cooper and Guy Lodge (eds.), Faith in the Nation: religion, identity and the public realm in Britain today, IPPR, December 2008.^[7]
• Leading the preventing violent extremism agenda: a role made for councillors. (Contributed to guidance booklet with research team), Local Government Association, 2008.^[8]
• “Islamophobia: Old Wine in New Bottles?”, in Islamophobia and the Challenges of Pluralism in the 21st Century, ACMCU Occasional Papers, August 2008.^[9]
• “Faith and Solidarity” in Nick Johnson (ed.), Citizenship, Cohesion and Solidarity, The Smith Institute, June 2008.^[10]
• “British Muslims in the anti-terror age” in Global Dialogue, Vol. 9, No. 3-4, Summer / Autumn 2007.^[11]
• Faith as Social Capital – Connecting or Dividing? Report of a Joseph-Rowntree Foundation research project with Rob Furbey, et al., March 2006.^[12]
• Chapter on ‘Can Islam Make us British?’ in Madeleine Bunting (ed.) Islam, Race and Being British, Guardian Publications, 2005.^[13]
• Report on Human Rights and Muslims in the EU, jointly with Professor Jocelyne Cesari and Alexandre Caeiro, the European Commission, 2005.^[14]
• Report on Mapping Jewish-Muslim Dialogue in UK sponsored by the Stone-Ashdown Foundation, with Dr Keith Kahn-Harris et al., July 2005.
• Chapter on ‘British Muslim Identity post 9/11’, in Ron Geaves et al., Islam and the West Post 11 September, Ashgate, 2004.^[15]
• Article on ‘Muslim Political Participation in Britain and the ‘Europeanisation’ of Fiqh’ in Die Welt des Islam, Brill, Leiden, Winter 2004.^[16]
• British Muslims between Assimilation and Segregation, co-authored book, The Islamic Foundation, 2004.^[17]
• British Muslims: Loyalty and Belonging, co-edited book, The Islamic Foundation, Leicester, 2003.^[18]
• Chapter on ‘The Holy Grail of Muslims in Western Europe: Representation and Relationship with the State’, in Esposito and Burgat (eds.), Modernizing Islam: Religion in the Public Sphere in Europe and the Middle East. Hurst & Co., London, 2003.^[19]

See also

• British Bangladeshis
• List of British Bangladeshis

References

External links

• Official website