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Suhaib Webb

Suhaib Webb

Suhaib Webb is a contemporary American-Muslim educator, activist, and lecturer. His work bridges classical and contemporary Islamic thought, addressing issues of cultural, social and political relevance to Muslims in the West. After converting to Islam in 1992, Webb left his career in the music industry to pursue his passion in education. He earned a Bachelor’s in Education from the University of Central Oklahoma and received intensive private training in the Islamic Sciences under a renowned Muslim Scholar of Senegalese descent. Webb was hired as the Imam at the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, where he gave khutbas (sermons), taught religious classes, and provided counselling to families and young people; he also served as an Imam and resident scholar in communities across the U.S.

From 2004-2010, Suhaib Webb studied at the world’s preeminent Islamic institution of learning, Al-Azhar University, in the College of Shari`ah. During this time, after several years of studying the Arabic Language and the Islamic legal tradition, he also served as the head of the English Translation Department at Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyyah.

Outside of his studies at Al-Azhar, Suhaib Webb completed the memorization of the Quran in the city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia. He has been granted numerous traditional teaching licenses (ijazat), adhering to centuries-old Islamic scholarly practice of ensuring the highest standards of scholarship. Webb was named one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center in 2010.

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  • Assalam alaikum Shayk

    Jazak Allah khayr for these- can’t wait for the next 8 🙂

    Also, I wondered if you could possibly give me some advice. How do you convince a non-muslim that circumcision for boys in necessary in Islam.

    I know somebody who has married a non-muslim man and now she has recently had a son. She called me this week as she wants to get her son circumcised but her husband has said that it is not mentioned in the Quran therefore it is not important, so he won’t agree for it to be done. Although he is Christian, he does allow her to teach the children Islam and they attend Arabic and Quran classes, but with this particular issue he is being quite stubborn. My friend does not want to go and ask in the Mosque because she is worried that people will give her a hard time for marrying this non-muslim in the first place (as she was born in to a muslim family) and she does not want to divorce him.

    Jazak Allah khayr

    Fi amanillah

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