Joel Hayward

Joel Hayward
Professor Joel Hayward
Born	27 May 1964 Christchurch, New Zealand
Academic background
School or tradition	Sunni Islam
Academic work
Main interests	war and strategy; airpower, joint warfare, Quranic (Islamic) concepts of war;fiction; poetry.
Notable works	Warfare in The Qur’an, Airpower and the Environment, Splitting the Moon, Stopped at Stalingrad, For God and Glory
Notable ideas	Active in opposing terrorism and radicalisation

Joel Hayward FRHistS FRSA (born 1964) is a New Zealand-born British "noted scholar of war and strategy", writer and Muslim poet whom the daily newspaper Al Kaleej calls "a world authority on international conflict and strategy". He is best known for his published books and articles on strategic and security matters, including the use of air power, his 2003 biography of Horatio Lord Nelson, and his writing and teaching on the Quranic (Islamic) concepts of war, strategy and conflict.

In November 2012 he became full Professor of International and Civil Security at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi and in 2013 he became Chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Khalifa. He also serves there as the Director of the Institute of International and Civil Security. Earlier in 2012, he was a Senior Fellow at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education and a Research Fellow of the Cambridge Muslim College. His career highlights include having been Dean of the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell for five years (2007-2011), a Director of the Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies think-tank for four years (2008-2012), and the academic Head of Air Power Studies at King's College London for six years (2005-2011). He is a Professor of Strategy at the Indonesian Defense University and he holds fellowships from the United States Air Force and the Federal Government of Germany. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Historical Society. With the title of Shaykh he has earned ijazas in ʿAqīdah and Sirah.