Professor Hayward has taught Islamic Studies in elite institutions, including the Royal Air Force College (UK), of which he served as Dean for five years, Khalifah University (UAE), the National Defence College of the UAE, and the Cambridge Muslim College, which he also headed. He is now Dean of the Sycamore Leadership Academy. He weaves together classical Islamic knowledge and methodologies and the source-critical Western historical method to make an innovative yet carefully reasoned sense of complex historical issues that are still important in today’s world. They include: Warfare in the Qur’an (2012), War is Deceit: An Analysis of a Contentious Hadith (2017), Civilian Immunity in Foundational Islamic Strategic Thought (2019), and The Leadership of Muhammad ﷺ: A Historical Reconstruction (2021) and his latest book (2022) is The Warrior Prophet: Muhammad ﷺ and War. The last two titles have won international awards.