Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah
Scholar and author, American
Born in 1948 in Columbus, Nebraska, and raised in Georgia. He accepted Islam in 1970 and took a doctorate on the origins of Islamic law at the University of Chicago in 1978. He taught in the United States, Canada, Spain and at King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah, and in 2000 returned to Chicago to chair the Nawawi Foundation. He is now scholar-in-residence at The Oasis Initiative. His books include Mālik and Medina and A Muslim in Victorian America.
- Scholar-in-residence, The Oasis Initiative
- Founding chair, the Nawawi Foundation
- Author of Mālik and Medina
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