Mufti Aasim Rashid is a distinguished Muslim scholar, speaker and educator. He is devoted to the study and explanation of Islamic sacred texts and their relation to the modern context. His lectures, delivered at conferences and institutions around the world, are known to be inspiring and pertinent to the issues and pressing questions of the day. Mufti Aasim is the founder of the Al-Ihsan Educational Foundation, which has initiated the ‘Islam Unravelled’ project.

Mufti Hussain Kamani is the Resident Scholar at Masjid Al Rahman in Dallas and travels each week to teach and lecture at masājid and conferences nationwide. He memorized the Qur’an as a child, then traveled to England, where he completed the seven-year Alimiyyah program and specialized in Iftāʾ. He studied Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and other classical texts under one of the great Hadith scholars of our age, Shaykh al-Hadīth Mawlāna Yusuf Motala, and was deeply shaped by his mentorship. For over twenty years he has served as an imam and a teacher of Hadith, Fiqh, and Tazkiyah. He played a central role in shaping the Qalam Seminary, where he served as the Director and a senior faculty member. He also taught at Darul Qasim College during his time as an Imam in Chicago. At the heart of Mufti Hussain’s work lies a commitment to forming the next generation of imams and leaders grounded in the Islamic tradition, as well as scholars with the intellectual rigor to critically engage, shape, and transmit that tradition in face of the problems of the modern world. He has trained thousands of students, and many of them now lead their own communities as imams, chaplains, and educators across the country.

Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans is ALIM’s first Scholar-in-Residence. He converted to Islam while in high school. Upon conversion, Ustadh Ubaydullah began studying some of the foundational books of Islam under the private tutelage of local scholars. Since then he has studied at Chicagoland’s Institute of Islamic Education (IIE), in Tarim, Yemen, and Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, where he is the first African-American to graduate from its Shari’a program. Ustadh Ubaydullah also instructs with the Ta’leef Collective and the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN).

Shaykh Tariq Musleh is a graduate from the prestigious Madinah University where he attained his Associate degree in Arabic and Bachelors Degree from the College of Sharia. He completed his memorization of Quran at the age of 13 and went on to receive ijaza from Palestine. He studied Classical Arabic at the Fajr Center in Egypt. Shaykh Tariq has worked as a part time instructor for Islamic Learning Foundation Chicago, where he taught Quran and Arabic studies. He has served in Young Muslims (YM) for many years as a coordinator and murrabi. Shaykh Tariq has also served as the Youth Director for the Islamic Center of Naperville in Chicago and became the Youth Director and Assistant Imam of Mecca Center in Willowbrook, Illinois in July 2017.

Mufti Abdul Wahab Waheed was born and raised in Ann Arbor, MI. He began Islamic studies at Jaamiah al-Uloom al-Islamiyyah in Canada where he became a Hafiz at the age of 11. He started his 7-year Shariah program in Toronto, Canada, and went even further to pursue higher education of Hadith in Karachi, Pakistan. Throughout his travels, Mufti Abdul Wahab addresses communities across the United States on a wide range of Islamic topics and Inshallah, continues to do so with the Tawfiq of Allah SWT. Mufti Abdul Wahab is a Co-founder at Miftaah Institute and also is a Co-Founder and Director at Michigan Islamic Institute.

Born and raised in Southern California and by Allah’s grace, he memorized the Quran at a young age. He studied in Cairo, Egypt in 2006 and in 2007 was granted a scholarship to study at the Islamic University of Madinah. He completed a degree in the Arabic language and then went on to graduate from the College of Shariah. He is currently a Seminary instructor at the Institute of Knowledge in Diamond Bar, California as well as an instructor at the California Islamic University in Anaheim, California. He also serves as the Religious Director at the Islamic Center of Cypress.

Imam Zahed Fettah is a dedicated scholar with a strong foundation in both Islamic and secular studies, specializing in Islamic law and the Hadith tradition. After memorizing the Qur’an, he earned an LLB in Law from the University of Birmingham. He then pursued a BA in Islamic Law from the European Institute of Human Sciences and an MA in Islamic Studies from Newman University (Markfield Institute). Currently, he is a PhD researcher at Swansea University. Imam Zahed has completed two years of Ifta specialization in Hanafi Fiqh and holds ijazas in various Islamic disciplines, particularly Hadith. He has studied at Dar al-Hadith in Algeria and spent over a decade learning traditional Islamic sciences from scholars in the UK. He currently serves as the Imam of the Muslim Community of Folsom.

Born and raised in the United States, Imam Yousef Hussin embarked on his Islamic studies in Egypt, where he attended Al-Azhar University and studied various Islamic sciences with scholars outside the university. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Islamic Studies from the Islamic University of Minnesota and is currently pursuing another degree in the Faculty of Shariah at the Islamic University of Medina. Imam Yousef has received numerous ijazat (licenses), including an ijazah in several modes of Qur’anic recitation from Sheikh Waleed Al-Meneese and Sheikh Sherzaad Tahir. He continues to study Qur’anic recitation at the Qur’an Academy in Sharjah. In addition to his role as a teacher at Zidni Islamic Institute, he has previously served as an Imam in Sacramento and is currently an Imam at the Muslim Community of Folsom.