Dr. Uthman Badar is a student of Arabic, Islamic Studies and Continental Philosophy. He received his PhD in Philosophy from Western Sydney University in 2023 and currently teaches as a sessional lecturer. His research interests include secularism and religion, liberalism, political theory and political theology. His doctoral thesis focused on the critique of the concept of secularism and the legitimation of secularism in liberal political thought. He is also an active member of the Muslim community in Sydney, Australia, with over twenty years of grassroots activism, da’wah and advocacy.