Dr Ismail Patel

Dr Ismail Patel is the founder of the UK-based NGO Friends of Al-Aqsa and a former visiting research fellow at the University of Leeds. He has authored nine books, seventeen children’s books, and numerous media articles. His works include A Brief History of Palestine, Madina to Jerusalem: Encounters with the Byzantine Empire, Virtues of Jerusalem, and Making the Muslim Problem: From the British Empire to Islamophobia. A prominent political activist and leading campaigner for Palestinian rights, his works have been translated into several languages. Dr Patel focuses on interrogating decolonial thought and Critical Muslim Studies.