#3 -African American Muslims in Search of Traditional Islamic Knowledge
Join Imam Hamzah Abdul-Malik, Ustadh Jamal-ud-Deen Hysaw, Imam Zaid Shakir, and Ustadha Shahidah Sharif in part 3 of “Islam & Black America” for a discussion on what it means to pursue the path of sacred traditional Islamic knowledge for African American Muslims.
Creators and Guests
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Imam Hamzah Abdul-Malik
Imam Hamzah Abdul-Malik is a graduate of Al-Azhar University in Egypt; he has studied and taught Islam for over 15 years. He memorized the Holy Quran, and served as a teacher for Islamic schools and mosques in Georgia, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, and in the Middle East. He also obtained a Master’s degree in Islamic Studies and Leadership from Bayan Claremont. He co-founded Midtown Mosque in 2015 as an effort to revitalize blighted areas in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Imam Zaid Shakir
Zaid Shakir is a prominent American Muslim scholar and a professor emeritus and board observer of Zaytuna College. He has taught courses in Arabic, Islamic spirituality, contemporary Muslim thought, Islamic history and politics, and Shafi’i fiqh at the College. He speaks and writes on a wide range of topics, and he travels frequently across the United States to support institution-building projects in the Muslim community.
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Ustadha Shahidah Sharif
Shahidah Sharif has an extensive background in Islamic education and community service. At a young age, she began working with organizations such as Muslim Youth of North America and Clara Mohammed School of South Florida and Oakland, CA. Sharif has also worked with the Islamic Society of the University of Miami and United Youth Leadership Forum of the Bay Area, where she organized and coordinated many events to serve the Muslim and non-Muslim community. She studied for three years at the Abu Nour University in Damascus through the Mosque Cares Study Abroad Program with a focus on the Arabic language and the Islamic Sciences.
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Ustadh Jamal-ud-Deen Hysaw
Ustadh Jamal-ud-Deen Hysaw originally from Chicago, Illinois obtained his Bachelors degree in Political Science from Southern Illinois University. In the summer of 1992, he accepted Islam and subsequently travelled to Damascus, Syria where he studied Arabic and Islamic Studies at Abu Nur and the University of Damascus for three years. He continued his studies in Tarim, Yemen where he studied at Dar al-Mustafa for another five years. Ustadh Jamal-ud-Deen presently resides in Atlanta, Georgia with family where he conducts regular learning programs, study circles, seminars, retreats and programs in the arts.
