IMAM ZAID’S CAREER [PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY]

Imam Zaid Shakir, among the most respected and influential Muslim scholars in the West, has served in the United States Air Force.

He earned a BA summa cum laude (with highest honors) in International Relations at American University in Washington D.C. and later earned his MA in Political Science and International Relations at Rutgers University.

From 1988 to 1994 he taught as an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Arabic at Southern Connecticut State University. Then, for seven years in Syria and briefly in Morocco, with some of the top Muslim scholars of our age he immersed himself in an intense study of Arabic language, Islamic law, Quranic Studies, and Islamic spirituality.

In 2001, he graduated from Syria's prestigious Abu Nur University. Currently, as a scholar-in-residence and lecturer at Zaytuna Institute, he teaches regular courses on Arabic language, Islamic law, history, and Islamic spirituality.

Among works he has translated from Arabic into English, is his translation of Scholars Are The Heirs of the Prophets. He wrote Scattered Pictures: Reflections of An American Muslim in 2005, and he is completing Divine Yearnings, to be released in 2008. For more information concerning Imam Zaid, and to listen to other webcasts, please visit www.zaidshakir.com