Directory

Board of Trustees

Faraz Ahmed, MBA (Chair, Finance Committee)

Dilshad Dhanani

Marianne Farina, PhD, CSC (Chair, Education Committee) Masood Khan, Esq. (Chair, Membership Committee)

Suhail Obaji, MD

Pervez Qureshi, MBA (Chairman)

Mubasher Rana, MD

Syed Mubeen Saifullah, MBA (Secretary and Chair of the Audit Committee) Zaid Shakir, MA, MIt (Observer)

President’s Cabinet (Shūrā)

Hamza Yusuf, PhD, MIt1 (President) Aisha Subhani, DO (Vice President) Omar Qureshi, PhD, MIt (Provost, Assistant Professor) Sumaira Akhtar (Senior Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning) Safir Ahmed (Director of Publications and Communications, Editor of Renovatio) Jamal Mohammad Barakat (Senior Director of Development) Jacobus Botha (Manager of Facilities and Security) Faisal Hamid (Director of Admissions and Financial Aid) Ghaith Saggaf (Director of Advancement Operations) Larry Smith (Accounting Manager) Dawood Yasin, MA, MIt (Director of Student Life, Director of the Center for Ethical Living and Learning)

Faculty

Assistant Professors

Abdullah Ali, PhD, MIt Ali Ataie, PhD

Cindy Ausec, PhD (Director of Academic Support Center)

Hatem Bazian, PhD

Fadi Elhin, PhD, MIt (Director of Arabic Program)

Youssef Ismail, PhD, MIt Francisco Nahoe, PhD, OFMConv

Jawad Qureshi, PhD, MIt (Director of Graduate Studies and Administration) Omar Qureshi, PhD, MIt (Provost, Assistant Professor)

Lecturers

Talal Ahdab, MASc, MIt

Faraz Khan, BA, MIt (Coordinator of the Honors Program)

Nawal Laymoun, MAEd Yusuf Mullick, BA Tahir Anwar, BA, MIt Amar Bellaha, MIt Phillbert Cheng, PhD(c) Uzma Fatima Husaini, MA, PhD(c), MIt

Mahsuk Yamac, BA, MIt(Director of Graduate Teaching and Learning)

Adjunct Faculty

Lawrence Jannuzzi, Esq., PhD

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.

Khwaja Ahmed (Admissions and Financial Aid Officer) Safir Ahmed (Director of Publications and Communications, Editor of Renovatio) Sumaira Akhtar (Senior Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning) Manal Alfaouri (Donor Relations Associate) Javier Alvarez (Facilities Manager) Luis Alvarez (Construction and Maintenance Worker) Maria Alvarez Moran (Janitorial/Event Custodian) Jamal Mohammad Barakat (Senior Director of Development) Na’im Beyah (Audio Visual Specialist) Jacobus Botha (Director of Facilities and Campus Services) Souad Bouali (Data Analyst) Seema Duhan (Public Programs Manager) Heba El-Haddad (Student Counselor) Faisal Hamid (Director of Admissions and Financial Aid) Najeeb Hasan (Managing Editor, Publications) Yahya Hanson (Bookstore Assistant) Uzma Fatima Husaini (Senior Editor) Aisha Ibrahim (Office Manager) Atif Irfan (Regional Development Director of the Midwest) Naima Jameson (Director of Administrative Services) Jerry Jiminez (Maintenance Worker) Jibran Khan (Marketing Writer) Faatimah Knight (Writer/Social Media Manager) Sara Kuratnik (Digital Marketing Assistant and Social Media) Jesse Marquez (Construction and Maintenance Worker) Feraidoon Mojadedi (Event and Volunteer Manager) Nadeen Mustafa (Regional Development Director of the South) Ibraheem Naqeeb (Assistant Director of Student Life) Ismael Nass-Duce (Director of Emir-Stein Center) Carol Nisar (Marketing Manager) Khadija Annette O’Connell (Interior Design Manager) Pepy Prawira (Human Resource Manager) Ghaith Saggaf (Director of Advancement Operations) Aaron Haroon Sellars (Audio Visual Manager) Syed Tahir Shah (Campus Safety and Security Officer) Aadhil Shiraz (Associate Accountant) Akram Sirafi (Development Programs Manager) Larry Smith (Accounting Manager) Aisha Subhani, DO (Vice President) Dawood Yasin (Director of Student Life and Director of the Center for Ethical Living and Learning) Fida Yassine (Accounting Assistant) Irshad Zakaria (Operations Support Specialist)

God is the One who illuminates the heavens and the earth. The example of His light is like a niche within which is a lamp: the lamp is within glass, the glass as if it were a glittering star lit from [the oil of] a blessed olive tree—neither of the east nor of the west—whose oil would almost glow, even if untouched by fire. Light upon light. God guides to His light whom He wills. And God draws such comparisons for people; God has full knowledge of everything.

(Qur’an 24:35)

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