• About
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    In 2009, Zaytuna College was founded in Berkeley, California, with a mission that called for grounding students in the Islamic scholarly tradition as well as in the cultural currents and critical ideas shaping modern society.

  • Academics
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    As a Muslim liberal arts college in the West, Zaytuna offers a curriculum that provides its students with a foundation in the intellectual heritage of two major world civilizations: the Islamic and the Western.

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  • Admissions & Aid
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    Our mission is to educate students to become morally, intellectually, and spiritually accomplished individuals ready to contribute to our contemporary world in ways that are proportionate to their gifts and to the needs of human society.

     

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  • Campus Life
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    Zaytuna’s campus is on Holy Hill and students enter the College as part of a cohort, a community of learners that travel together through the curriculum.

Applications for Fall 2025 are now open

Campaign for 12000 Strong

The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ promised us that 12,000 hearts united as one will not be defeated for lack of numbers. In this video, President Hamza Yusuf invites you to join 12000 Strong, our monthly giving program, and be a part of a community that strives to restore faith and character in education.

Rabi' Al-Awwal Online Lecture Series: The Medicinal Messenger ﷺ

We invite you to follow our Rabi' al-Awwal video series on YouTube this month and learn from Rhamis Kent, Dr. Ali Ataie, and Ustadha Hosai Mojaddidi. In these troubling times of tribulation and intense afflictions, may we turn to the perfect example of God’s Beloved ﷺ as a healing for our heart, mind, and soul.  

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Events and Academic Calendar

Friday, October 11, 2024 | 3:30 pm | Upper Campus | Environmental Documentary Film Screening

Join filmmaker Emmett Brennan and Zaytuna scholar-in-residence Rhamis Kent for an evening of film and conversation. The California-based filmmaker will be visiting Zaytuna College to share his 2021 directorial debut on the state's water crisis, Reflection: A Walk with Water. Ages 12 and older are welcome. 

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Undergraduate and Graduate Degree Programs

Zaytuna College offers a BA in Liberal and Islamic Studies with a minor in Arabic, as well as an MA in Islamic Texts with three concentration options. 

BA in Liberal and Islamic Studies

Zaytuna’s Bachelor of Arts in Liberal and Islamic Studies and minor in Arabic is founded on an integral liberal arts curriculum, consisting of courses from both the Islamic and Euro-American traditions of higher learning.

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MA in Islamic Texts

Zaytuna’s Master of Arts in Islamic Texts is intended to provide students with higher-level access to the Islamic tradition through a guided course of study in Islam’s primary sources.

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Alumni Pathways

After graduating from Zaytuna College, alumni pursue careers in law, education, medicine, research, and community service. 
BA Class of 2016

Reema Lateef

  • Currently a trial attorney for the US Department of Justice
  • Earned a JD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Received the prestigious Rickert Award for her excellence in service
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BA Class of 2021

Fariha Asad

  • Currently a medical student at Texas Tech Health El Paso
  • Co-authored a medical journal article on Bechet's disease
  • Entered Zaytuna with an AA degree
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BA Class of 2021

Yusif Conn

  • Currently a pharmacy technician at Kaiser Permanente and Walgreens
  • Former research intern at Stanford University
  • Co-authored a journal article published recently in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry
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MA Class of 2021

Suzanne Kasim

  • Currently an MA student in Qur'anic Sciences at Minnesota University
  • Formerly a full-time pharmacist
  • After Zaytuna, served as an ustadha at Jannah Institute
LEARN ABOUT THE MA PROGRAM

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Make a Gift

As inheritors of a great tradition, we’re committed to educating tomorrow’s leaders and contributing to the commonweal today, through public scholarship and education. Your gift of knowledge helps our students—unburdened by debt and empowered by the study of the Islamic and the Euro-American intellectual traditions—begin to transform the world, God-willing.