He is Abū Aḥmad, James b. Paul al-Malik, al-Ḥanbalī, al-Briṭānī
أَبُو أَحْمَد، جَايمْسُ بْنُ بُولُسَ المَلِك، الحَنْبَلِيّ، البِرِيطَانِيّ

He was born in South East England to non-Muslim parents, descending from a long lineage of ethnically English Christian ancestry. Raised in a culturally Christian environment. Although religion was not practised in the home, traditional customs such as Christmas celebrations and school nativity plays formed part of early life. His father held staunch atheistic views, though not rooted in any theological studies, but by rejecting Christianity, which he took to be representative of religion as a whole. As a result, his son adopted atheism from an early age fuelled by the same ignorance and rejection, by taking Christianity as the standard for all religion.

He embraced Islam at the age of fifteen, and since has been dedicated to Islamic studies, firmly rooted in the methodology of the Ḥanbalī madhhab. He has studied various disciplines of the Sharīʿah under multiple Ḥanbalī shuyūkh. Alongside hisstudies, he is also actively building a personal library mainly focused on the Hanbali madhhab.

He currently teaches a small group of students, as well as writing English explanations on Ḥanbalī books at varying levels, transmitting traditional Islamic knowledge with clarity and precision, aiming to revive the classical Ḥanbalī tradition in an accessible format.