Spring 1434 Faculty

Biographies

The following are the Spring 1434/2013 faculty biographies, listed in alphabetical order:
Abdelmoniem Elamin | Ahmed Almaz | Elamin Ali | Haroon Baqai | Taha Adeseun

Professor Abdelmoniem Elamin

Abdelmoniem Elamin has over fourteen years of experience as an instructor with American Open University. He has taught Islamic belief subjects (Aqeedah), the principles of Islamic jurisprudence (Usool ul-Fiqh), and other sciences of Hadith and Fiqh in both Arabic and English. He holds a M.M.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Catholic University of America as well as a B.Sc. in Islamic Sciences from the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America (IIASA), a satellite of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Professor Ahmed Almaz

Ahmed Almaz holds a B. Sc. in Islamic Law from Al-Azhar University, a M.A. in Education from the University of Phoenix, and is currently working on his Ph.D. in Adult Education. He was taught by many famous scholars such as Sheikh Mohamed Ismail Al-Moqadem and Sheikh Yaser Borhami, and holds an Ijazah in the Qur’an. He works as an instructor at the University of Virginia, teaching Fundamentals of Foreign Languages, as well as a teacher at Islamic Saudi Academy, teaching Qur’an Recitation and Understanding Qur’an. He has more than twenty years of experience in this field at the college and school level.

Professor Elamin Ali

Alamin Ali has over twenty years of experience teaching Arabic as a second language. He holds a M.A. in Arabic Language and Religion from Punjab University in Pakistan. He also holds a B.A. in Islamic and Arabic Studies from The Imam Muhammad University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the past, he served as the Dean of Academic Affairs for the Eastern Sudan Academy.

Professor Haroon Baqai

Haroon Baqai is the principal of Al-Huda School and director of the Hifzh School at Dar-us-Salaam in College Park, Maryland. He has an Ijazah (certification) in Hafs ‘an ‘Aasim, which he received in Saudi Arabia after studying under Sheikh Muhammad Ali Haqqan. Haroon is the author of “Let’s Beautify Our Recitation: A Complete Handbook of Tajweed”. He has also produced ”Ahlul Quran Gear”, an audio guide to memorizing short surahs, in addition to several CDs containing his Qur’an recitations.

Professor Taha Adeseun

Taha Adeseun began his Islamic studies at the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America (IIASA) in Fairfax, Virginia and went on to earn his B.A. in Dawaa and Usool ud-Deen from the Islamic University of Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah. He has studied Islamic belief (Aqeedah), jurisprudence (Fiqh), the principles of Islamic jurisprudence (Usool ul-Fiqh) and Islamic history under various scholars and gives lectures and seminars on those subjects. Taha is currently a teacher of Islamic Studies and Qur’an in College Park, Maryland.