Barkatullah, Abdulkadir

Shari’a Supervisor and Senior Imam, Finchley Mosque; London, United Kingdom Abdulkadir Barkatullah is currently the senior Imam at Finchley mosque and maintainer of Freefone Islamic Helpline, Mufti Barkatulla initially graduated in Islamic Studies at Darul Uloom (Deoband, India), where he was also trained as Mufti (issuing Islamic authoritative edict) in 1974. Moving to London in 1979, he pursued his studies at ‘O’ and ‘A’ levels accomplishing B. Sc. (1985) and M Phil (1992). As a director of Islamic Computing Centre, Barkatulla published (1986) electronic databases of Qur’an, Hadith, seerah and Islamic Law on CD-ROMs. As one of Shari’a Judges at the Islamic Shari’a Council, Barkatulla has wide experience of dealing with socio-cultural issues of Muslims living in the UK and Europe. As a trustee of world famous Finsbury Park Mosque, Barkatulla became voice of moderate British Muslims denouncing the extremism of Abu Hamza demanding his eviction from the mosque. Barkatulla has participated in Radio interviews, talk shows and documentaries both in community media and mainstream media such a BBC Television channels BBC Radios, BBC London TV, Channel 4, ITV London tonight. Barkatulla hosted a daily live Phone-in Talk show “Deen-e-Islam” (Religion of Islam) on a community digital channel, VECTONE Urdu TV, sky channel 828. Barkatulla is a member of the Shari’a supervisory panels for several Islamic financial institutions, including United National Bank, Alburaq of Arab Banking Corporation London, Islamic Bank of Britain, and Lloyds TSB.