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Sheikh
Hamza Yusuf
Sheikh Hamza Yusuf embraced Islam in 1977. Sheikh Hamza
Yusuf spent several years studying in the Middle East and Africa under
numerous scholars. Currently, he is the director of the Zaytuna Institute,
in California, which is dedicated to the Revival of Islamic Sciences and
the preservation of traditional teaching methods...Read More
The following are some of his Audio Lecture CDs in
the English language:
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson was born in Walla Walla, Washington and raised
in Northern California.He became a Muslim in 1977 in Santa Barbara,
California and subsequently moved to the Middle East and studied Arabic
and Islam for four years in the United Arab Emirates and later in Madina,
Algeria, Morocco, and West Africa for many years.
Sheikh Hamza Yusuf received teaching licenses in various Islamic subjects
from several well-known scholars in various countries. After a ten-year
sojourn of studies abroad, he returned to the USA and took degrees in
nursing from Imperial Valley College and religious studies at San Jose
State University.
Sheikh Hamza Yusuf has travelled all over the world giving talks on Islam.
He is the co-founder of Zaytuna Institute, which is dedicated to the
revival of traditional study methods and the sciences of Islam. Sheikh
Hamza Yusuf has translated several classical texts from Arabic and
presently teaches at Zaytuna Institute in Hayward, California. He lives in
California with his wife and children.
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