Wafat of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and Imam Hasan (AS)

Hujjat-ul-Islam Dr Mohammad Saeed Bahmanpour, raised in Iran, studied at Queen Mary College London, the London School of Economics and the Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran.

He has been editor of several cultural, religious and political magazines, a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge and most recently a lecturer at the Islamic College for Advanced Studies in London. Currently he is the director of interfaith relations at the Islamic Centre of England.

His main fields of interest are theology, Islamic mysticism, and Qur’anic sciences and exegeses, including its history and compilation.

Sheikh Bahmanpour has authored several books including Muslim Identity in the 21st Century, ed. (2001), The Idols Will Fall (2010), The Blessed Tree: The Life and Times of Fatima Daughter of Muhammad (2011), Towards Eternal Life (2015), and Understanding Sura Yasin (2018).

Besides his numerous contributions to the Mahfil Ali community, Dr Bahmanpour has held regular Qur’an exegeses classes on Sunday mornings at SICM since 2003 to the present day.