Dr. Uthman Lateef is a khateeb at Stoke Poges Lane Mosque and Islamic Centre, a presenter at Islam Channel and a senior researcher at the Hittin Institute. He has a BA in History, an MA in Crusader Studies and has also completed a PhD in 'The Place of Fada'il al-Quds (the Merits of Jerusalem) and Religious Poetry in the Muslim Effort to Recapture the Crusades'.