Shaykh Talal Ahdab

Shaykh Talal has studied Arabic grammar, Tajwid, Tafsir, Hadith, Fiqh, Sira, 'Aqida, Usul al-Fiqh and Mantiq. He is regarded as one of the main teachers of the Islamic sciences in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). For the last 15 years he has been conducting classes in both English and Arabic across the GTA...[click here for full bio]

Shaykh Faraz Rabbani      

Shaykh Faraz Fareed Rabbani was born in Karachi, Pakistan and raised in Toronto, Canada. He entered the University of Toronto with a full scholarship and completed his Bachelor's in Economics & Commerce in May 1997. While in Canada, Shaykh Faraz was involved with various organizations and projects, including founding and running...[click here for full bio]

Shaykh Zahir Bacchus

Shaykh Zahir immigrated to Canada with his family from Guyana when he was five years old and attended Islamic classes in Toronto from a very early age. After high school he 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...[click here for full bio]

Shaykh Ramzy Ajem

Shaykh Abu Shamsudin Ramzy ibn Mahmoud Ajem is of Tunisian descent and was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. In 1995, he left Canada to begin his Islamic studies in Damascus, Syria. He completed the two year pre-college program with honors at Abu-Nur Islamic Institute of Syria. While in Damascus, he had the honor to meet and...[click here for full bio]

Shaykh Jamal Zahabi

Shaykh Jamal Zahabi was born in 1957 in Lebanon. He began his traditional Islamic educational training at the age of 12 when he entered Mahad al-Fatah, a rigorous madrassah in Damascus, Syria. After spending 6 years there he went on to complete a degree at the prestigious Azhar Islamic University in Cairo, Egypt...[click here for full bio]

Imam Zaid Shakir

Imam Zaid Shakir is amongst the most respected and influential Islamic scholars in the West. As an American Muslim who came of age during the civil rights struggles, he has brought both sensitivity about race and poverty issues and scholarly discipline to his faith-based work...[click here for full bio]

Shaykh Omar Qureshi

Shaykh Omar Qureshi completed his Bachelor's degree at the University of Missouri – Columbia in Microbiology in 1995 and later obtained a M.Ed. in Science Education – Curriculum and Instruction from the same institution. As a teacher in Saudi Arabia, he also studied various Islamic Sciences with Sh. Abdallah al-Kadi and...[click here for full bio]

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 shariah sciences in Syria (Damascus and Aleppo) for four years before settling in Chicago where he continues his studies.  Jawad is also a doctoral student in Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago's Divinity School.

Ustadha Saiema Syed Din

Ustadha Saiema was born in Toronto, Canada to parents of Pakistani origin. She attended, while doing her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, fiqh classes taught by Shaikh Talal Ahdab and attended the first Deen Intensive program in Toronto in 1997. She graduated in 1997 from the University of Toronto with an Honours degree in Psychology....[click here for full bio]