Karim Lahham is a Barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple, London. He has a Masters from the Royal College of Art, read law at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and completed a doctorate in Islamic Studies at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was called to the London Bar in 1999 as an Inner Temple Major Scholar and continues to practice in the field of commercial law. Karim is also Senior Research Fellow at Tabah Foundation, Cairo. His publications include: The Roman Catholic Church's Position on Islam After Vatican II (2008); Muhammad Shahrur's Cargo Cult (2012); Response to Cardinal Scola's House of Lords Speech (2013); The Vocational Society (2014); Ghandi, Islam and the Principle of Non-violence and Attachment to Truth (2016); 'Being Good': An Ontological Necessity of First Principles (2021); and a critical edition of Ibn 'Arabi's al-Tanazzult al-Mawsiliyya (forthcoming).