Usama Hasan
| Usama Hasan | |
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| Born | London, United Kingdom |
| Citizenship | British |
| Occupation | Theologian, author, lecturer |
| Organization | Quilliam |
| Website | unity1 |
Usama Hasan is a British astronomer and former academic who is currently a senior researcher in Islamic Studies at the Quilliam Foundation.
He is a former senior lecturer in business information systems at Middlesex University, and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He has argued in favour of a compatibility between Islam and human evolution.
He has stated that he fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet occupation.
Hasan was a member of the United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Projecting British Muslims delegations to Egypt in 2008 and to Afghanistan (Helmand) in 2010, was a Keynote Speaker at the Anglo-Syrian government-sponsored conference "The Message of Peace in Islam" in Damascus in 2009, and is a Patron of both the Forum for the Discussion of Israel and Palestine (FODIP) and Friends of the Bereaved Families Forum. Usama was also a speaker at the Google Ideas/Council on Foreign Relations Summit Against Violent Extremism (Dublin, 2011).
He is Senior Researcher at the Quilliam Foundation. He has appeared on television programmes, including BBC Hardtalk,CNN, and has also written various columns for The Guardian and The Washington Post.
Hasan has argued that Islam is compatible with the theory of evolution, describing the story of Adam and Eve as "children's madrasa-level understanding" of human origins while pointing to antecedents of the modern theory of evolution among medieval Muslim philosophers like Ibn Khaldun and Ibn Miskawayh. His lectures have been disrupted by hecklers and he claims to have received death threats.
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