Dr Sadek Hamid Dip H.E, MA, PhD, PG Cert Ed, FHEA

My teaching experience includes designing and delivering various undergraduate and postgraduate courses and modules such as: Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion, Philosophy and Ethics, Islamic Theology, the Sociology of Muslim Communities in Britain, Youth Studies, Leadership, Community Development  at 

• Chester University, 
• Cambridge Muslim College,
• Liverpool Hope University,
• University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

My academic background is in the Social Sciences, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies.

I have a specialisation in the study of Muslim young people, Islamic activism, religious radicalisation, inter-faith relations, religion and public policy.

Books

• Contemporary British Muslim Arts and Cultural Production: Identity, Belonging and Social Change (Co-edited with Stephen Jones), (Routledge, 2023).
• Muslims in Britain: New Directions in Thought, Creativity and  Activism(with Philip Lewis). (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).
• Political Muslims: Understanding Youth Resistance in a Global Context. (Co-edited with Tahir Abbas). (Syracuse University Press, 2018).
• Young British Muslims: Between Rhetoric and Realities. (Routledge, 2016).
• Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Contested Ground of British Islamic Activism. I.B.Tauris. London, 2016)
• Islam and Youth Work: A Leap of Faith for Young People (Co-edited with Brian Belton).  Sense Publishers, (Rotterdam.2011).

Book Chapters

• “Old” and “New” Salafis in Britain: Continuity and Change in A Contested Landscape in Salafism in the West: Myths and Realities, edited by Mohamed-Ali Adraoui  and Olivier Roy (Forthcoming). 2023.
• United Kingdom (with Stephen Jones).Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. Brill. Leiden.2018.
• The Emergence and Establishment of British Muslim Organisations in Islamic    organisations in Western Countries of Immigration. History, Developments and Future Perspectives. Ceylan, R, and Peucker, M. (eds). Springer (VS Publishing), 2017 
• Hizb ut-Tahrir in the United Kingdom, Muslim Association of Britain and ‘Jihadi Groups in the UK’, co-authored with Yahya Birt, in the Manual of Islamic Movements in Europe.  Peter, F and Ortega, R. (eds). I. B. Tauris. London. 2014.
• The Rise of the Traditional Islam Network: Neo-Sufism and British Muslim Youth in Gabriel, T, Geaves, and R. (eds), Sufism in Britain: Trends and Transformations. Bloomsbury. 2013.

Journal Articles

• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Salafism in Countering Jihadism: Revisiting a British Case Study (Journal TBC, Forthcoming).
• Salafism in Britain: Between Integration and Isolation. OASIS Journal. December.2018.
• Searching for Khilafatopia: The Rise and Fall  of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain. Critical  Muslim, 22.1, 2017.
• Identities, cultures et regles religieuses’ (Young European Muslims: Identities, Cultures and Religious Patterns) Afkar/ Idees (Journal of Ideas) No, 50. 2016.  IE Med. Barcelona.  Spain,2016.
• British Muslim Youth: Facts Features and Religious Trends’ in Religion State & Society. London. Routledge. (September) pp. 247-261. 2011
• Returning to Quran & Sunnah: The Development of Salafism in Britain. ISIM Review, 21, Spring 2008. University of Leiden. Holland, pp.10-11, 2008.

Conferences Organised

I helped to organise the following:

• Contemporary Muslim Art, Culture and Heritage in Britain. Muslims in Britain Research Network and The University of Birmingham. 14th September 2017.
• ‘Young, British and Muslim: Academic Research and Real Lives’, and the University of Lancaster AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme. Manchester Town Hall. 22nd November 2011. 
• ‘Muslim Youth: Challenges, Opportunities and Expectations’. University of Chester and  Association of Muslim Social Scientists (UK). Chester. 22-23rd March 2009.