Tim (Timothy John) Winter (born 1960), also known as Abdal Hakim Murad, is a British Muslim scholar and teacher. Conversant in both traditional Islamic scholarship and Western thought and civilization, Winter has made contributions in the following areas: Muslim-Christian relations, Islamic ethics, Sufism, Islamic theology, Hadith studies, orthodox Muslim responses to extremism, sexuality in Islam, Islam and gender, Islam and the West, British Islam, religious life in Ottoman Turkey, and the Scriptural Reasoning project.Born in 1960, Winter was educated at Westminster School, and graduated with a double-first in Arabic from Cambridge in 1983. He went on to study the traditional Islamic sciences at the University of al-Azhar in Egypt for several years, and also spent an equal number of years in Jeddah, where he administered a commercial translation office and maintained close contact with the Sufi Shaykh Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad. In 1989, he returned to England and spent two years at the University of London where he studied Turkish and Farsi. Winter's younger brother, Henry Winter would go on to become a respected football writer.
Winter is currently the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer of Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University, Director of Studies in Theology at Wolfson College, and a doctoral student at Oxford University, where he is studying the relationship between the government and Sufi brotherhoods in the Ottoman Empire. Winter is also the secretary of the Muslim Academic Trust (London), Director of The Anglo-Muslim Fellowship for Eastern Europe, President of the UK Friends of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Director of the Sunna Project, which has published the foremost scholarly Arabic editions of the major Sunni Hadith collections.