Raficq Abdulla

Raficq was born in South Africa to Muslim Parents, Raficq Abdulla is an Oxford-educated barrister who was formerly the University Secretary and legal advisor to Kingston University and is now a Visiting Fellow of the Faculty of Business and Law at the University. He is also a writer, public speaker, and broadcaster.
 
Over the last 15 years, Raficq has written and presented a large number of programmes on Islam for BBC World Service radio, including The Four Caliphs, Rumi, The Conference of the Birds a new interpretation of the allegorical poem by the 12^th century mystic poet Fariuddin Attar. As a writer, Raficq has published Words of Paradise, a new collection of interpretations of Jalaluddin Rumi’s poetry, and he has also published a new interpretation of the allegorical poem by the medieval poet and mystic, Farid al-Din Attar, Conference of the Birds.
 
He has been a regular reviewer of books on Islam for many years and has published poetry in journals and articles on a number of topics including issues concerning identity, Islamophobia, and the after math of the Salman Rushdie affair. He has also written on Ruskin and on topics dealing with Muslims in the contemporary world.