Ustadh Mujeeb Gallagher is a lawyer specialising in media law, having graduated from Edinburgh university with an MA in Arabic and Persian. He is also a keen classicist with a background in Latin and Classical Greek. He has travelled extensively in the middle East and South Asia, studying in Yemen, Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Iran, Pakistan and India. Subjects included hifz, fiqh, aqida and tasawwuf.