Alqueria De Rosales

 

  

  

  

  

 

Promotional Video

 

Deen Intensive Foundation is pleased to announce the Rihla 2010 Summer Program from July 10 - July 31st. This summer, the Rihla will be hosted in Southern Spain at the beautiful Andalusian-style facility Alqueria de Rosales. We welcome all prospective students to apply to this unique, enriching program.
http://www.deenintensive.com
Teachers include: * Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah * Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad * Imam Zaid Shakir * Shaykh Hamza Yusuf * Ustadh Yahya Rhodus * Imam Tahir Anwa (tentative) * Ustadh Walead Mosaad

 

 

Ustadh Yahya Rhodus

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 other distinguished scholars visiting from Mauritania, namely, Shaykh Khatri & Shaykh Abdullah Ould Ahmadna. In 1998, he traveled to Mauritania to further his studies of the Islamic sciences. There he spent more than 2 years learning with some of Mauritania's greatest scholars, including Shaykh Murabit al-Hajj. In 2000, he moved to Yemen to continue his studies. In 2005, he returned from his studies overseas to serve as a full-time teacher at Zaytuna Institute. 'He currently resides in Yemen with his wife and children where he continues to augment his studies, teach and work on various projects.

Ustadh Walead Mohammed Mosaad

Ustadh Walead Mohammed Mosaad

Walead Mohammed Mosaad was born in New York City in 1972 and grew up in New York and central New Jersey. He attended the Rutgers College of Engineering and obtained his B.S. in electrical engineering in 1994. During his university years, he was active in the Islamic Society of Rutgers University for which he served as president.
After graduation, he worked as a communications and network engineer in New Jersey and later in New York City. In the summer of 1997, he departed for the Middle East to study Arabic and Islamic sciences. After studying some of the Arabic sciences with a scholar from Dar Al-'Ulum in Cairo, he enrolled in Mahad Al-Fatah in Damascus.

Shaykh Walead then completed a degree in Arabic Language and Literature from Al-Azhar University in Cairo. He has also studied the Islamic sciences, including Qur’anic exegesis, marriage and divorce law, law of transactions, hadith methodology and commentary, juristic methodology, and spiritual sciences with notable scholars such as Shaykh Bakri Al-Tarabishi a Qur’anic scholar with the highest Qur’an ijaza in the world, Ustadh Ali Hamidullah, one of the foremost Arabic grammarians , Shaykh Kurayyim Rajih, the grand shaykh of Qur’an reciters in Damascus, Shaykh Ahmad Taha Rayyan, the foremost Maliki Shaykh in al-Azhar, and Shaykh Ali Jumua, the grand mufti of Egypt.

Additionally, he has been given written authorization, or ijaza, from the current Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shaykh Ali Jumua to transmit and teach the sacred sciences. He also received written authorization to teach Qur’anic recitation with the highest chain of authorization to the Prophet (SalAllahu wa alayhi wa salam), from Shaykh Bakri al-Tarabishi of Damascus.

Upon returning to America, he taught at an Islamic school, served as a Muslim chaplain at Rutgers, and was an associate Imam at Dallas Central Mosque in Richardson, TX. Since 2005, Walead has been working at the Tabah Foundation to tackle problems of global concerns for Muslims. Most notably, he was a key member of the delegation to Denmark following the cartoon crisis, where along with other scholars, he engaged in dialogue with the people of Denmark and the Muslim minority of Denmark. He also oversees dawah projects in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.


He has participated in deen intensive programs in California at the Zaytuna Institute, New Mexico, South America, and in the UK. He currently lives in Abu Dhabi with his family and 5 children.

Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad

Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad

Abdal Hakim Murad graduated from Cambridge University with a double-first in Arabic in 1983. He then lived in Cairo for three years, studying Islam under traditional teachers at Al-Azhar, one of the oldest universities in the world. He went on to reside for three years in Jeddah, where he administered a commercial translation office and maintained close contact with prominent ulama from Yemen.

In 1989, Shaikh Abdal Hakim returned to England and spent two years at the University of London learning Turkish and Farsi. Since 1992 he has been a doctoral student at Oxford University, specializing in the religious life of the early Ottoman Empire. He is currently Secretary of the Muslim Academic Trust (London) and Director of the Sunna Project at the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge University, which issues the first-ever scholarly Arabic editions of the major Hadith collections.

Shaikh Abdal Hakim is the translator of a number of works, including two volumes from Imam al-Ghazali's Ihya Ulum al-Din. He gives durus and halaqas from time to time and taught the works of Imam al-Ghazali at the Winter 1995 Deen Intensive Program in New Haven, CT. He appears frequently on BBC Radio and writes occasionally for a number of publications, including The Independent; Q-News International, Britain's premier Muslim Magazine; and Seasons, the semiacademic journal of Zaytuna Institute.

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson was born in Walla Walla, Washington, and grew up in Northern California.

Shaykh Hamza embraced Islam in 1977 in Santa Barbara, California, when he was still a teenager and set off almost immediately to study Arabic, Islamic jurisprudence, philosophy, and spiritual psychology with masters in the Muslim world. He first studied for four years in the United Arab Emirates and then moved to Madina, followed by Algeria, Morocco, and then finally to a unique madrassa in the Saharan desert of West Africa to study with the remarkable scholar Shaykh Murabit Al-Hajj.
After ten-years of studies abroad, he returned to the United States and completed degrees in nursing at Imperial Valley College and religious studies at San Jose State University.

He has traveled all over the world giving talks on Islam. He also founded Zaytuna Institute which has established an international reputation for presenting a classical picture of Islam in the West and which is dedicated to the revival of traditional study methods and the sciences of Islam. Shaykh Hamza is the first American lecturer to teach in Morocco's prestigious and oldest University, the Karaouine in Fes. In addition, he has translated into modern English several classical Arabic traditional texts and poems, including The Muslim Creed by Imam al-Tahawi and more recently Ibn Ashir’s The Helping Guide. Shaykh Hamza currently resides in Northern California with his wife and five children.

(For more information on Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson and the Zaytuna Institute please visit www.zaytuna.org)

Ustadh Abdel Hadi Honerkamp

Ustadh Abdel Hadi Honerkamp

Abdel Hadi Honerkamp teaches Modern Standard Arabic and in-depth Arabic textual study at the University of Georgia in Athens. He is also involved in researching Arabic manuscripts, particularly those found in the less well-known manuscript collections of Morocco. His interest lies in the integral and complementary relationship of the shariah and Sufism.

Dr. Honerkamp is a graduate of the Karaouine University of Fes, Morocco. He is also a graduate of the University of Aix-en-Provence, France, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1999 after earning a Master’s degree in religion from the University of Georgia in 1995. Earlier, Dr. Honerkamp also studied Qur’anic commentary and Arabic grammar in the North-West Frontier of Pakistan with traditional Muslim scholars.

Dr. Honerkamp has lectured in many cities in the U.S.A. and has written several scholarly articles in Arabic, English, and French, which have been printed in various academic journals. He translated and annotated two of the three works that appear in Three Early Sufi Texts, which was published by Fons Vitae in 2003. He is currently working on several forthcoming books.