Upcoming Events
Jul 27
2019-07-27 19:00:00
2019-07-27 22:00:00
America/Los_Angeles
In Defense of God
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Islamic Center of Long Island, 835 Brush Hollow Rd, Westbury, NY 11590, USA
Zaytuna College
In Defense of God
7:00 - 10:00pm
Free
Islamic Center of Long Island, 835 Brush Hollow Rd, Westbury, NY 11590, USAFaraz Khan, Zaytuna College faculty member, will offer a presentation on theology at the Islamic Center of Long Island.
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Omar Qureshi
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Dean of Faculty
At Zaytuna College, Omar Qureshi teaches Metaphysical Foundations, Contemporary Muslim Thought, Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence, and al-Ghazali. Prior to Zaytuna College, Dr. Qureshi served for seven years as the principal and dean of academics for a parochial school located in Chicago’s West suburbs. While in Chicago, he completed his Ph.D. in Cultural and Educational Policy at Loyola University in 2016. His dissertation, entitled “Badr al-Dīn Ibn Jamāʿah and the Highest Good of Islamic Education,” was on the identity of religious educational institutions in the United States.
Additionally, Dr. Qureshi has studied and teaches texts in Islamic Law – Shāfiʿī, Kalām theology, Islamic Legal Theory (usūl al-fiqh), Qurʾānic sciences and exegesis, Ḥadīth nomenclature, Prophetic Biography and Islamic History.
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Education: Ph.D., Cultural and Educational Policy Studies, Loyola University, M.Ed. Curriculum and Instruction, University of Missouri, BA Biology, University of Missouri