Dr. Uthman Badar is Research Operations Manager and Lead Editor at Ummatics, and is a student of Arabic, Islamic Sciences, and Continental Philosophy. He received his PhD in Philosophy from Western Sydney University in 2023, where he currently teaches as sessional staff. His research interests include secularism and religion, liberalism, political theory, and political theology. His doctoral dissertation is centred on a critique of the conception of secularity and the legitimation of secularism in liberal political thought. He is also an active member of the Muslim community in Sydney, Australia with over two decades of engagement in grassroots activism, da’wah, and apologetics.