The Salam Team
Imam Mohammad Muslim Eneborg
Mohammad Muslim Eneborg converted to Islam in 1980. Shortly afterwards, he spent several years travelling around the Muslim world, including South Asia and North Africa, as well as many Muslim communities across Europe. After these travels, he settled down in Dewsbury, England where he studied Arabic, Urdu and Islamic jurisprudence at the Institute of Islamic Education, earning himself the title of ‘alim.
He has worked as an imam at several mosques in the UK, taught Islam at universities and other institutions across Europe, and is engaged in dialogues and debates about inter-religious cooperation and the role of religion in modern society. He is often approached by the media to comment on events and issues relating to Muslims in Europe
Apart from his duties as imam and khatib in Masjid Aysha, a local musallah in Stockholm, Mohammad Muslim teaches at Kista Folkhögskola, Sweden’s only Muslim adult education centre and has a part-time consultancy with a Muslim health company. He also occasionally lectures in Arabic and Islam at the University of Stockholm, as well as other universities and colleges in Stockholm. He further holds courses on Islam and the Muslim culture for non-Muslim professionals up and down the country under the name of Aksaa islamutbildning (Islam-education), which is a branch of Sidratul Muntaha. Mohammad Muslim is involved in several integration projects and attends official meetings on a regular basis as well as taking an active part in inter-religious dialogue.
He is married with four children.
Max Abdussalam Dahlstrand
Abdussalam became a Muslim in 1994 at the age of 23, after completing his Master of Architecture degree in the United States. After a few years working as a professional architect, mainly working with new mosque projects in Sweden, he devoted most of his time to working for the Muslim youth in Sweden as a secretary for the Swedish Young Muslims’ Association. He later founded Sidratul Muntaha together with Imam Mohammad Muslim and developed courses mainly for non-Muslim professionals about Islam and Muslim culture. He has taken part in inter-religious dialogue, media interviews, newspaper articles, lectured about Islam to thousands of school children and university students, etc. as well as voluntary work in Masjid Aysha. He has also been very engaged in reaching out to new Muslims.
Abdussalam is married and has two children, Yuusuf and Maryam. He lives with his family in one of the northern suburbs of Stockholm.
Abdussalam is currently working part time as a team leader for the Swedish Sobriety and anti-drug Organisation (IOGT-NTO) in Stockholm. He also works part time as a manager for a Muslim company that give care and service to people with disabilities. In his free time he administrates Sidratul Muntaha and lectures about Islam to students and non-Muslim professionals. He reaches out to several hundred students each month.