Dr. Yasien Mohamed is an Emeritus Professor of Arabic & Islamic Philosophy in the Department Foreign Languages at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). His research interests include Arabic language and literature, Islamic philosophy, and language methodology. Mohamed took his doctorate in Islamic ethics from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. He was a research fellow at the Oxford Centre of Islamic Studies, Oxford. He has edited several books, including The Teaching of Arabic in South Africa, and Roots to Writing in Southern Africa. He is the co-author of First Steps in Arabic Grammar; and author of Fitrah: the Islamic Concept of Human Nature. He received the International Book Prize for The Path to Virtue.