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About Yasir Qadhi

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi PhD is one of the few people who has combined a traditional Eastern Islamic seminary education with a Western academic training of the study of Islam. Shaykh Yasir graduated with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston after which he was accepted as a student at the Islamic University of Madinah. After completing a diploma in Arabic he graduated with a B.A. from the College of Hadith and Islamic Sciences and then completed a M.A. in Islamic Theology from the College of Dawah. He then returned to America and completed a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. He has authored several books published academic articles and appeared on numerous satellite and TV stations around the globe. His online videos are of the most popular and highly-watched Islamic videos in English. Shaykh Yasir Qadhi is a resident Scholar of the Memphis Islamic Center. He is also a professor at Rhodes College in the Department of Religious Studies.