Directory Board of Trustees
Faculty
Faraz Ahmed, MBA (Chair, Finance Committee)
Assistant Professors
Dilshad Dhanani
Abdullah Ali, PhD, MIt
Marianne Farina, PhD, CSC (Chair, Education Committee)
Ali Ataie, PhD
Masood Khan, Esq. (Chair, Membership Committee)
Cindy Ausec, PhD (Director of Academic Support Center)
Suhail Obaji, MD
Hatem Bazian, PhD
Pervez Qureshi, MBA (Chairman)
Fadi Elhin, PhD, MIt (Director of Arabic Program)
Mubasher Rana, MD
Youssef Ismail, PhD, MIt
Syed Mubeen Saifullah, MBA (Secretary and Chair of the Audit Committee)
Francisco Nahoe, PhD, OFMConv
Zaid Shakir, MA, MIt (Observer)
Jawad Qureshi, PhD, MIt (Director of Graduate Studies and Administration)
President’s Cabinet (Shūrā)
Omar Qureshi, PhD, MIt (Provost, Assistant Professor)
Hamza Yusuf, PhD, MIt1 (President)
Lecturers
Aisha Subhani, DO (Vice President)
Talal Ahdab, MASc, MIt
Omar Qureshi, PhD, MIt (Provost, Assistant Professor)
Faraz Khan, BA, MIt (Coordinator of the Honors Program)
Sumaira Akhtar (Senior Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning)
Nawal Laymoun, MAEd
Safir Ahmed (Director of Publications and Communications, Editor of Renovatio)
Yusuf Mullick, BA
Jamal Mohammad Barakat (Senior Director of Development)
Amar Bellaha, MIt
Jacobus Botha (Director of Facilities and Campus Services)
Uzma Fatima Husaini, MA, PhD(c), MIt
Tahir Anwar, BA, MIt Phillbert Cheng, PhD(c)
Faisal Hamid (Director of Admissions and Financial Aid)
Mahsuk Yamac, BA, MIt (Director of Graduate Teaching and Learning)
Ghaith Saggaf (Director of Advancement Operations)
Adjunct Faculty
Larry Smith (Accounting Manager)
Lawrence Jannuzzi, Esq., PhD
Dawood Yasin, MA, MIt (Director of Student Life, Director of the Center for Ethical Living and Learning) 1 The Mujāz Ijāzat tadrīs (MIt) is a traditional teaching license in Islamic sciences that is equivalent to an MA or PhD in modern academia. The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) recognizes its equivalency to Western academic degrees for Zaytuna College, and thus allows the holders of this license to teach at the College. Dr. George Makdisi, in his landmark work, The Rise of Colleges, argued that the ijāzah was a type of academic degree or doctorate issued in medieval madrasahs, similar to that which later appeared in European medieval universities. Devin J. Stewart also sees a parallel and asserts that “the license to teach law and issue legal opinions was clearly an actual document of official or legal standing,” while also noting a difference in the granting authority (individual professor for the ijāzah and a corporate entity in the case of the university). The theory of an Islamic origin of the degree was originally proposed in the 1930s by Alfred Guillaume, who cited the ijāzah as a precursor to the licentia docendi, which Syed Farid al-Attas agrees with.
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