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Imam Zaid Shakir
Imam Zaid is widely celebrated as a
respected scholar, writer, and speaker. He
accepted Islam in 1977 while serving in the
United States Air Force and completed a
BA in International Relations and an MA
in Political Science. He dedicated himself
to an intense study of the Islamic sciences
in Egypt, Morocco, and the prestigious
Abu Nour University in Damascus, Syria.
Currently, Imam Zaid is a resident scholar
at Zaytuna Institute in California. He has
authored several works on Islam in America
and has translated Ibn Rajab’s masterpiece
Heirs of the Prophets and al-Muhasibi’s
Treaties for The Seekers of Guidance. His
unique qualifications and insight have
made him an invaluable scholar.
Shaykh Talal Ahdab
Shaykh Ramzy Ajem
Shaykh Ramzy is the founder and
director of Dar al-Marifa and the Risala
Foundation. He began studying the Islamic
sciences abroad in 1995. His teachers
include several renowned scholars such
as Shaykh Muhammad Yaqoubi, Shaykh
Ramadan al-Bouti, and Shaykh Nur
al-Din Ittar—in addition to studying at
Abu Nour University in Damascus, Syria.
His studies continued in West Africa
becoming one of the first Westerners to
be admitted to the ancient madrassa of
Tanalat in the Atlas Mountains of southern
Morocco (Madrassat al-Hajj Muhammad
al-Habib). There, he would complete
several texts and receive ijazas in fi qh,
aqida, Arabic grammar and morphology
Shaykh Abdullah bin Hamid Ali
Shaykh Abdullah bin Hamid Ali serves as a resident scholar for Zaytuna Institute in Berkeley, California and is the first American to attend and graduate (2001) from the University of Qarawiyyin's faculty of Shariah in Morocco. He specializes in the Islamic sciences of Fiqh (Jurisprudence), Usul-ul Fiqh (Legal Theory) and Aqeeda (Islamic Doctrine). His intimate knowledge of the Islamic Law has earned him the respect of many of today's most prominent Eastern and Western scholars of Islam. Prior to traveling overseas to study, he studied in the United States with Imam Aberra of Eritrea, Ustadh Anwar bin Nafea Muhaimin, Ustadh Anas bin Nafea Muhaimin, Dr. Khalid Blankinshiip, The Institute of the Arabic and Islamic Sciences of Fairfax, Virginia, and with other locals of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Shaykh Zahir Bacchus
Shaykh Zahir was raised in Toronto and completed a degree in Zoology with a minor in history at the University of Toronto. During his years on campus he was actively involved with the Muslim Student Association assisting in organizing many important events such as hosting the Mayor of Sarajevo during the tumultuous years of genocide against Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovinia. Upon graduation In 1996 he left for Amman, Jordan to study Arabic. The following year he enrolled in the Arabic program at the University of Damascus and it is in Damascus that he would spend the next six years of uninterrupted study. In the years he spent in Damascus, Shaykh Zahir had the blessing of meeting and sitting in the company of some of the premier scholars of Damascus, learning Hanafi fiqh, aqida (science of beliefs), mantiq (logic), usul (critical intellectualism), hadith, and tafsir.
Ustadha Saiema Syed Din
Over the course of six years, Ustadha
Saiema studied the science of tajweed,
Shaf’i fi qh, Arabic grammar, aqida, and
methodology of hadith. She studied
under some of the distinguished
scholars of Damascus attaining written
permission to teach the Islamic sciences.
She then returned to the University
of Toronto and completed the
Bachelor of Education program. She
currently resides in Brampton where
she continues to teach the Islamic
Sciences as well as being a full-time
teacher in the public school board.
Shaykh Jawad Qureshi
Shaykh Jawad holds undergraduate
and graduate degrees in Religious
Studies. After completing his MA from
the University of Georgia-Athens, he
studied the Islamic sciences in Syria
(Damascus and Aleppo) for four years
before settling in Chicago where he
continues his studies. Shaykh Jawad
is also a doctoral student in Islamic
Studies at the University of Chicago’s
Divinity School.
Shaykh Omar Qureshi
As a teacher in Saudi Arabia, Shaykh
Omar studied various Islamic Sciences
with Shaykh Abdallah al-Kadi and
Shaykh Salman Abu-Ghuddah. He
continued his Islamic studies in
Damascus, Syria at Ma’had al-Tahdhib
wa-l-Ta’lim and privately with local
Damascene scholars such as Shaykh
Hussain Darwish. Currently Shaykh
Omar is an upper school science
teacher at Morgan Park Academy in
Chicago. In addition to teaching, he
is pursuing a Ph.D. in Philosophy of
Education and Comparative Education
at Loyola University Chicago.
Shaykh Yahya Rhodus
Ustadh Yahya Rhodus was born in America’s Midwest. He became Muslim at the age of 19 in the San Francisco Bay Area and began studying with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and distinguished scholars visiting from Mauritania, Shaykh Khatry and Shaykh Abdullah Ould Ahmadna. In 1998, he left for Mauritania to further his studies of Islamic Sciences. There he spent over a year studying with some of Mauritania's great scholars, including Shaykh Murabit al-Hajj, one the great scholars of our age. In 2000, he moved to Tarim, Yemen to continue his studies at the prestigious Dar al-Mustafa. There he studied with renowned scholars including Habib `Ali al-Jifry, Habib `Umar bin Hafiz, and other local scholars. In 2005, he returned to the US from his studies overseas to serve as a full-time teacher at Zaytuna Institute until the summer of 2007. To further his studies he then moved back to Tarim, where he currently resides with his family.
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