Adnan Rashid

عدنان راشد

A British Muslim historian and lecturer based in London, specialising in the history of Islamic civilisation and Islamic numismatics. He holds a BA with honours in history from Birkbeck College, University of London, and a master's degree from SOAS, and holds ijazas in hadith. He served as a senior researcher and lecturer with iERA, is a khateeb in a number of West London mosques, and runs his own YouTube channel of history lectures and debates.

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Historian · writer
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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    Summary

    Adnan Rashid is a British Muslim historian and lecturer based in London, specialising in the history of Islamic civilisation and Islamic numismatics. He holds a BA with honours in history from Birkbeck College, University of London, and a master's degree from SOAS, and holds ijazas in hadith. 1 He runs his own YouTube channel of history lectures and debates. 2

    Work

    Rashid served as a senior researcher and lecturer with the dawah organisation iERA and has led dawah missions to Africa; he is a khateeb in a number of West London mosques and has debated high-profile Christian and atheist figures. 1 His official website presents him as a historian, bibliophile and numismatologist, and records his co-authored peer-reviewed research on the medals of Tipu Sultan's Mysore published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, together with the guided history tours he leads to al-Andalus and Ottoman sites. 3

    Positions and faith

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    No source consulted names a legal school or theological affiliation for Adnan Rashid personally. The profiles describe his hadith ijazas, his research and lecturing posts and his debates; teachers, chains of transmission and dawah posts are credentials, not a school attestation, so no faith value is recorded for him. 1 2

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    Sources

    1. Adnan Rashid — Muslim Central podcast
    2. Adnan Rashid — YouTube channel
    3. Adnan Rashid — his official website
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    islam.museum contributors. “Adnan Rashid”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/adnan-rashid/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.

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