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Muftī Qāḍī Sayyid Amjad Mahmood Mohammed (Urdu: امجد محمود محمد is a British Islamic scholar who is dean and head scholar at the British Olive Foundation. He has written and lectured extensively on fiqh, Sharia, organ donation,^[1] moonsighting, jurisprudence for Muslim minorities in the West, Muslim education within the West,^[2] usul al-fiqh, and Islamic finance. He sits on multiple Sharia and fatwa boards,^[3] and holds advisory positions at several financial institutions pursuing Islamic banking or finance.^[4]

Mohammed is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of RG Advisory.

Mohammed is the Chief Shariah Officer of NZF Worldwide.

Mohammed‘s main focus is on the concept of minority jurisprudence (fiqh al-aqalliyat) and tradition-based or Sharia hermeneutics.^[5] His book, Muslims in non-Muslim Lands: A Legal Study with Applications, explains how the British Muslim community developed its faith identity through three particular stances: assimilation, isolation and integration. The findings argue that the assumption that Islam causes Muslims to isolate from the indigenous population and form ‘a state within a state’ is false, and that Islamic law actually gives Muslims confidence and the ability to integrate within the wider society.^[6]

Cryptocurrency OneCoin is deemed one of the world’s biggest crypto-scams. OneCoin claimed to have a Shariah-compliant certificate about which Mufti Amjad Mohammed started to receive queries by uncertain Muslim investors. After careful inspection of the OneCoin terms and conditions, Mohammed issued a fatwa saying that Muslims should not invest in OneCoin.^[7] In response, OneCoin claimed they had changed their T&Cs, but he still advised against Muslims investing as OneCoin could not be found on any cryptocurrency exchanges.^{[8][9][10][11][12]}

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