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Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf was born in Washington State and raised in Northern California. In 1977, he became Muslim and subsequently traveled to the Muslim world and studied for ten years in the U. A. E., Saudi Arabia, as well as North and West Africa. He received teaching...Read More |
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Imam Zaid Shakir
Imam Zaid Shakir is amongst the most respected and influential Muslim scholars in the West. Born in Berkeley, California, the second of seven children he accepted Islam in 1977 while serving in the United States Air Force. He then obtained a BA with honors in International Relations...Read More |
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Shaykh Salek bin Siddina
Shaykh Salek is from Mauritania, West Africa, a country known for producing some of the Muslim world's most knowledgeable scholars. He studied for over 17 years in the famous mountain region of Taganat, from numerous accomplished scholars including...Read More |
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Qari Amar Bellaha
Qari Amar is a well-known and esteemed Hafiz, the term distingushing one who has committed to memory the Quran in its entirety. Raised in Morocco, he memorized the Quran at the age of 17 from Madrasat Imam Nafia. He has ijaza (Islamic teaching licenses) for...Read More |
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Ustadh Yahya Rhodus
Ustadh Yahya was born and raised in America's midwest. At the age of 19 he became Muslim in the San Francisco Bay Area and began studying with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and distinguished scholars visiting from...Read More |
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Usama Canon
Born and raised in California, Usama Canon embraced Islam in 1996. Since then he has had the honor of studying various Islamic Sciences both at home and abroad under some of today's foremost scholars....Read More |
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Shaykh Abdur Rahman Tahir
Shaykh Abdur-Rahman Tahir was born in the western part of Somalia in 1929. After memorizing the Qur'an, he studied extensively in the traditional Islamic schools of that region. Upon graduating from high school he ventured to Egypt to further his Islamic education....Read More |
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Murabit Benavidez
Murabit Benavidez converted to Islam at the tender age of 19 and shortly thereafter set off to the blessed land of Sham in Damascus.
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Abdullah bin Hamid Ali
Abdullah bin Hamid Ali began the study of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the age of 17 with his first Arabic teacher, Imam Aberra----may Allah show him mercy----of Eritrea, a well-known private teacher in Philadelphia. He later studied Arabic, Qur'anic recitation (tajwid) and memorization (hifz), and other introductory topics with Imam Anwar bin Nafea Muhaimin and his brother Anas....Read More |
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