• 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.

Zaytuna College Commencement 2025

Join Zaytuna in Celebrating this Milestone for our Graduates

Join Zaytuna College online on our YouTube channel at 10am PDT on Sunday, May 18th, 2025 to honor our BA and MA graduating classes. We are pleased to announce that Dr. Khalid Blankinship of Temple University will be the keynote speaker at this year's commencement program.

About the Keynote Speaker

Born in Seattle, Washington, Dr. Khalid Yahya Blankinship obtained his BA in History, from the University of Washington, in the same year he actually converted to Islam, in 1973. He later went on to receive a masters in Islamic History in 1983 from Cairo University and his PhD in History from the University of Washington in 1988. After traveling extensively in Europe and the Middle East, Blankinship became fluent in both classical and colloquial Arabic.

In 1990, Dr. Blankinship moved to Philadelphia, where he was appointed as the Chair of the Department of Religion at Temple University, and has been serving the local Philadelphia and greater global community since.

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