queerimam.ai was created by Azfar Anwar, a queer Muslim scholar whose journey has woven together faith, scholarship, activism, and technology. Azfar was born and raised between Singapore and Dubai, studied in madrasah from childhood, and later pursued Islamic studies and law in Egypt and Syria – including traditional training (ijazah) with scholars such as the late Sheikh Ramadan al-Bouti. He went on to complete a Master’s in Islamic Law & History at Oxford University, focusing on Islam and homosexuality, where he uncovered queer narratives that had been censored in earlier parts of his education. Alongside this scholarship, Azfar co-founded QUASA in Singapore, a community space centring queer Muslim power, prayer, and dignity, and has spent the past six years working in major tech companies (Google, Twitter, Airbnb, TikTok, and Meta). He has also written on Islam, queerness, and progressive Islamic theology, and was mentored by pioneering queer imams such as Imam Daayiee Abdullah and Imam Muhsin Hendricks, whose passing and assasination this year underscored how fragile our queer Islamc leadership is. queerimam.ai is his way of extending pastoral support beyond his own limits, preserving LGBTQ-affirming Islamic narratives, and building a system of care that can outlast any one of us.