Monday 4/27:
Dr. Zainab Alwani
is the Founding Director and the first Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Howard University School of Divinity (HUSD). She is also the chair of the Master of Arts (Religious Studies) program at HUSD. Dr. Alwani received her Ph.D. in Islamic Sciences and Islamic Jurisprudence from the International Islamic University in Malaysia. Her Ph.D. dissertation focused on the implementation of the higher aims of Islamic law (Maqāṣid al Shariah) within the domain of the American Muslim family.
Tuesday 4/28:
Imam Mohamed Magid
is a Sudanese-born American who came to the United States in 1987. He attained his religious education in various Islamic disciplines as a Resident Scholar at Al-Medina Institute. Currently serving as the Executive Director of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS), Imam Magid helped establish exemplary religious services for Muslim communities across the nation to emulate. He has much experience serving the nation-wide Muslim community as the former President of ISNA (Islamic Society of North America).
Wednesday 4/29:
Dr. Hadia Mubarak
is an assistant professor of religious studies at Guilford College. Previously, Mubarak taught at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Davidson College. Mubarak completed her Ph.D. in Islamic studies from Georgetown University, where she specialized in modern and classical Qurʾanic exegesis, Islamic feminism, and gender reform in the modern Muslim world.
Thursday 4/30:
Dr. Mohsen Kadivar
is a research professor of Islamic studies at the department of Religious Studies, Duke University since 2009. He earned the certificate of Ijtihad from the theologian seminary of Qom and received a PhD of Islamic Philosophy and theology from Tarbiate Modarress University in Tehran.
Friday 5/1:
Imam Mohamed Abu-Taleb
serves as the Imam of the Islamic Association of Raleigh. He is a lifelong student of the Qur'an and Islamic studies, has studied with a number of credentialed scholars and teachers and has been blessed to memorize the Holy Quran. Mohamed also shares a love of science and reason and completed his Ph.D. and Master's degrees in electrical engineering from MIT along with degrees in physics and mathematics from the University of Maryland.
Nightly taraweeh this week will be led by
Muhammad Bah '22.
Muhammad
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s a second-year undergraduate student of Global Health and International Comparative Studies at Duke.
Muhammad grew up in the Gambia, which is the smallest country on mainland Africa, and is nicknamed the
Smiling Coast of Africa
because of its proximity to the Atlantic Coast and the hospitality of its people.
He is the recipient of the 2017 Ashinaga Africa Initiative Leadership Program Award from the Gambia, which is a prestigious award with the aim of contributing to Sub-Saharan Africa’s long-term development by empowering a generation of future leaders.
