The Rational Religion team is made up of a diversity of writers, many of whom you can check out below!
Lead Editor — Umar Nasser
Senior Editor — Damir Rafi
Ahmed Danyal Arif
Ahmed Danyal Arif is a French economist currently working in London. He has a Masters degree in Economics and Politics. After working for the French tax administration system, he took time off to write his first book — Islam & Capitalism: For an Economic Justice. He has just released another book on the economic history of the early Islamic world. Both books are in French and published by L'Harmattan.
7 Posts
Alex Borthwick
Alex has a masters in physics from Durham University and is currently training as a science teacher. He is a convert to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, and enjoys discussing his experience in becoming a Muslim, and how it harmonised his love for both science and spirituality.
6 Posts
Anne-Marie Ionescu
Anne-Marie Ionescu is a British-born Romanian convert to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. She is a medical doctor, and specialises in producing content on Islam's cures for today's social issues.
3 Posts
Athar Warraich
Dr. Athar Warraich is a British Ahmadi Muslim with a keen interest in science and religion. He has completed a PhD in Mathematics, on the subject of Group Theory.
7 Posts
Damir Rafi
Damir Rafi is a Junior Doctor and commentator on religion and society. His work has frequently appeared in the Independent Online and Huffington Post. He served for two years as the National President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Students Association. He is the author of the book 'Emergence: The Journey of a Young British Muslim Living in an Age of Extremism.' He currently serves as an Editor for Rational Religion.
14 Posts
Hamaad Khan
Hamaad Khan is an undergraduate Neuroscience student at Southampton University. He is a sceptic of all things ridiculous, and a believer in most things reasonable.
6 Posts
Mustafa Siddiqi
Mustafa Siddiqi is a senior trainee-Imam for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. A fluent Arabic & Urdu speaker, and raised in the UK, he is uniquely situated to comment on the teachings of Islam.
4 Posts
Rational Religion
Rational Religion argues for the existence of God from an Islamic perspective. It is a platform of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, featuring articles and videos on a variety of issues relating to atheism, religion, science and society. Apart from its website, it has an active YouTube channel featuring talk-shows, interviews and lectures.
70 Posts
Tahir Nasser
Tahir Nasser is a writer, moonlighting as a medical doctor. He is the co-founder of Rational Religion. He has served as the science editor for the Review of Religions (one of the oldest English-language magazines on comparative religions), writes for national and online media, and is a speaker on University lecture circuits on issues relating to Muslim youth and Islam in the modern world. He has written for the Huffington Post, Patheos and the Guardian. Tahir also enjoys writing fiction and has published his first novel, The Day They All Died Young.
20 Posts
Umar Nasser
Umar Nasser is a junior doctor who writes on atheism, religion and society. He is a co-founder of Rational Religion. A public speaker on religion in the contemporary world, Umar has coordinated anti-radicalisation event campaigns across UK universities. He was once a street magician, but has since decided that there are more than enough tricksters in the world.
33 Posts
