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Shabbir Akhtar was an associate member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom until his death in 2023. He was also an associate fellow of the Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies. His research interests included the Christian and Islamic responses to Western secular modernity; the work of Søren Kierkegaard; Paul's letter to the Galatians; the Qur'an and the New Testament; and freedoms of speech, conscience, and faith. His publications included The Quran and the Secular Mind (2007), Islam as Political Religion (2010), and The New Testament in Muslim Eyes: Paul's Letter to the Galatians (2018). He held B.A. and M.A. degrees in philosophy from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. from the University of Calgary.