• 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.

Summer Term Closing Ceremony 2024

Summer Term Closing Ceremony 2024
Summer Term Closing Ceremony 2024

On Friday, August 2nd, 2024 in the upper campus auditorium, the College held its Summer Arabic Intensive closing ceremony with keynote addresses from the Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Dr. Ali Ataie, Vice President Dr. Aisha Subhani, and President Hamza Yusuf. For several of the incoming freshmen, this course was the first time they wereexposed to the Arabic language so deeply, while immersed in a Muslim environment. One of the student speakers, freshman Basmalah Shafi, a resident of Texas, shared that the seven weeks spent in the Summer Arabic Intensive offered her a transformative experience. She explained that she profoundly realized not only why we study, but that Zaytuna College is about acquiring knowledge that defines human beings as a species.