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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.
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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
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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.
Imam Zaid Shakir
Imam Zaid Shakir
Imam Zaid Shakir is amongst the most respected and influential Muslim scholars in the West. Born in Berkeley, California, the second of seven children, he accepted Islam in 1977 while serving in the United States Air Force. He went on to obtain a BA sigma cum laude in International Relations at American University in Washington D.C. and later earned his MA in Political Science at Rutgers University, where he emerged as an active leader in campus activities, helping to revive the Muslim Student Association. During his tenure, he co-lead a successful South Africa divestment campaign and was a co-founder of a local Islamic center, Masjid al-Huda. After a year of studying Arabic in Cairo, he settled in New Haven, Connecticut and continued his tireless community activism co-founding Masjid al-Islam, the Tri-State Muslim Education Initiative, and the Connecticut Muslim Coordinating Committee.As Imam of Masjid al-Islam from 1988 to 1994 he spear-headed a community renewal and grassroots anti-drug effort in the local neighborhood, and taught as an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Arabic at Southern Connecticut State University until his departure for Syria to further his studies in the traditional Islamic Sciences. For seven years in Syria and briefly in Morocco he immersed himself in an intense study of Arabic, Islamic law, Quranic studies, and Islamic spirituality with some of the top Muslim scholars of our age. In 2001, he graduated from Syria's prestigious Abu Noor University and returned to Connecticut to continue his work with the Muslim community in America. Teaching regularly as the Imam of Masjid al-Islam, writing numerous articles for various magazines, journals, and newspapers, and lecturing frequently at many of America's largest Muslim conferences and conventions, he soon emerged as one of the most popular and sought after American Muslim leaders. Amongst several works that he has translated from Arabic into English, his translation of "The Heirs of the Prophets" was published by Starlatch Press in 2001. In 2003, he moved to Hayward, California with his family to serve as a scholar-in-residence and lecturer at Zaytuna Institute where he now teaches regular courses on Arabic, Islamic Law, History, and Islamic Spirituality. He has since lectured at many of the Bay Area's top universities, including Stanford and U.C. Berkeley, and is a frequent speaker at local Muslim events.
He is widely regarded as an articulate voice on Islam and African-American issues and as a visionary leader in the emergence of an Islamic community and tradition and that is indigenous to America.
Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi
Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi
Born in Damascus, Shaykh Muhammad descends from a family whose lineage goes back to the Prophet, salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam, through his grandson Sayyiduna al-Hasan, radiya Allahu 'anhu. His ancestors also include some of the greatest scholars of Syria. His father, Shaykh Ibrahim al-Ya'qoubi (d. 1985/1406 H.), was one of the greatest scholars Syria saw in the past 50 years.As a little boy, Shaykh Muhammad crawled in the Grand Umayyad Mosque and the Darwishiyya Mosque, where his father was an instructor for 40 years, and sat in the laps of some of the greatest scholars. Under his father's tutelage, Shaykh Muhammad followed a solid traditional curriculum since the age of four, studying the major classical works on the various disciplines of the Shari'ah as well as the instrumental disciplines. He received ijazas in Hadith from several of the most prominent scholars in Syria.
Shaykh Muhammad pursued his academic studies at the University of Damascus, Faculty of Shari'ah. He also received a degree in Arabic literature in 1987 and completed a two-year study of philosophy at the Arab University of Beirut. In 1991, Shaykh Muhammad joined the PhD program of linguistics at Gothenburg University in Sweden, Department of Oriental Studies, where he also worked as a researcher and a teacher of classical Arabic literature. He worked in Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah in Kuwait in 1990 as Research Editor and later as Assistant Director for Research and Studies.
In Sweden, Shaykh Muhammad served the Muslim community of Gothenburg as Imam, where he struggled for the establishment of Islam in the country. In 1999, the Swedish Islamic society in Stockholm chose him as the Mufti of Sweden. Besides working in Syria and Sweden, Shaykh Muhammad participated in conferences, delivered lectures, and gave Friday speeches in the Middle East, Europe, Canada, and the United States.
Shaykh Muhammad taught his first class at the age of eleven in Qura'an and Tajweed, delivered his first public speeches at the age of twelve, and gave his first Friday khutba at the age of fourteen and a half.
Shaykh Muhammad is married and has three children and currently resides in Damascus, Syria.
Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah
Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah
Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayyah was born in Mauritania, West Africa, and is the son of a great scholar, Shaykh Mahfudh (may Allah have mercy on his soul). From a very young age, he showed extreme intellectual gifts and a profound ability to absorb vast amounts of information and text. He memorized most of the texts taught in the varying subjects including the Qur’an, Hadith, grammar, logic, rhetoric, semantics, philosophy and poetry. While still quite young, he was appointed to study legal judgements in Tunisia.
When he returned to Mauritania, he became Minister of Education and later, Minister of Justice. He was also one of the Vice Presidents to the first President of Mauritania. However, due to the conditions in Mauritania and the military change of governments that took place, he began to teach and ended up going to Saudi Arabia to become a distinguished professor at The University of Usool al-Fiqh.
Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah is also involved in writing. He has written several books and has delivered lectures all over the world. One of the areas of his expertise is in Fiqh al-Aqaliyaat, which is the juristic rulings related to minority Muslims.
Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayyah is a member of several legal bodies worldwide, such as the European Council of Legal Opinion and the Supreme Fiqh Council. He resides in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with his family and teaches Islamic Legal Methodology, Qur’an and Arabic at the King Abdal Aziz University.
He has graced our programs in the past with his blessed presence, sharing with us his vast wisdom and hikmah. He is fluent in Arabic and French, and delivers his lectures in Arabic with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf as his translator.
Rihla 2010/1431
Rihla 2010/1431
 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.Dates: July 10 -July 31st, 2010 (Does not include travel time) Location: Alqueria de Rosales, Southern Spain Curriculum: The 2010 Rihla Program will emphasize the three dimensions of the religion, as laid out in the Hadith of Jibril. Other courses from the Essentials Curriculum will also be provided to give students a well-rounded experience. Courses will include foundational Muslim creed ('aqidah), the legal aspects (fiqh) of purity, prayer, and fasting, a foundation in spiritual excellence, and other special topics including the foundational methodologies of jurisprudence (usul al-fiqh) and more. The courses will impart a complete enrichment experience including coordinated study breaks, review sessions, well-designed course materials, private devotional time, and coordinated recreational activities. Students can, insha'Allah, reap the benefits of combining professional courses, enlightening teachers, and a focused, spiritual environment. Teachers:
Cost:Total cost for students is $2600 USD (this includes full room, board and all course materials). Travel costs are not included.Application process:Please complete the application at your earliest convenience. Please keep in mind that we follow a rolling admission process so it is in your best interest to apply early. Application deadline is May 1st.Our FAQ will answer most of your questions. For further assistance, please email us at rihla@deenintensive.comrihla@deenintensive.com or call 1-800-790-2373. |
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