Dr. Uthman Lateef is Senior Researcher and Instructor at Sapience Institute. He has a BA in History, an MA in Crusader Studies, and has completed a PhD in the ‘Place of Fada'il al-Quds (Merits of Jerusalem) and Religious Poetry in the Muslim effort to recapture Jerusalem in the Crusades'.
His book on the crusades, ‘The Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword: Muslim Poetic Responses to the Crusades’ was published by Brill in 2018. Dr. Uthman has also authored ‘On Being Human: How Islam addresses othering, dehumanisation and empathy’ (2020), ‘Navigating War, Dissent and Empathy in Arab/U.S relations: Seeing Our Others in Darkened Spaces’ (Springer, 2021) and ‘Divine Perfection: Christianity an Islam on Sin and Salvation (Sapience Institute, 2022).
Currently, he is a Khateeb at JMIC Slough and a speaker at mosques and universities in the UK and internationally.
