Usman Zafar Khawaja

Usman Zafar Khawaja is an educator, writer, business-development leader, and creator of The Sahaba Project, a source-conscious initiative dedicated to making early Islamic history accessible, engaging, and historically responsible. Born in Riyadh and educated in the United Kingdom, he holds a BA (Hons) in Business Management and a master’s degree in International Relations. His career has spanned teaching, academic leadership, school management, partnerships, and educational development. Through The Sahaba Project, he explores the lives of the Companions of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), with particular attention to their world before Islam, their character, relationships, and social context, drawing on the Qur’an, authenticated hadith, early sīrah, biographical works, and modern scholarship. His writing combines intellectual depth, narrative clarity, reverence, and careful distinction between established fact, transmitted tradition, historical inference, and uncertainty.