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Biography
Dr Ataullah Siddiqui is a British academic and Reader in Religious Pluralism and Inter-Faith Relations at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education. Previously, he was the Director of the Institute from 2001 - 2008. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Gloucestershire, a Visiting Fellow at York St. John’s University, and an Advisory Board member of the HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of Edinburgh. He was founder President and Vice Chair of the ‘Christian Muslim Forum’, and a founder member of the Leicester Council of Faiths.
Dr Siddiqui is the author of the 2007 report, commissioned by the UK government, entitled Islam at Universities in England: Meeting the Needs and Investing in the Future.
In 2013, he gave one of the Cadbury Lectures at the University of Birmingham.
Scholarly publications
His publications include:
- Beyond the Dysfunctional Family: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Dialogue with Each Other and With Britain (edited with others), London: The Manor House Abrahamic Group (2012);
- British Secularism and Religion: Islam, Society and the State (edited. with others), Markfield: Kube Publishing (2010),
- Christians and Muslims in the Commonwealth: A Dynamic Role in the Future [co-edited 2001].
- Islam and Other Faiths [an edited collection of Ismail Raji Al-Faruqi’s articles] (1998).
- Christian-Muslim Dialogue in the Twentieth Century, Palgrave MacMillan (1997).