Interview with Professor Oliver Scharbrodt Professor Oliver Scharbrodt is a German-born professor of Islamic studies at the Faculty of Religions at the University of Birmingham, UK. He married a Jordanian woman living in London, 12 years ago and became a Muslim. He chooses “Comparison of Egyptian Islamist Muhammad ‘Abduh with Abbas Abdu’l-Bahá, the second leader of the Bahais, in connection …