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Hisham Mahmoud is an Arabic Lecturer at Princeton University , where he teaches all levels of Modern and Classical Arabic. He has studied Arabic and its ancillary sciences with scholars in Egypt, Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania, where he pursued the disciplines of grammar, morphology, and rhetoric. He has held positions in Arabic at UCLA, Middlebury, and Yale University . He has translated and edited several classical Islamic works on issues pertaining to ethics, jurisprudence, and legal theory, and has also lectured at dozens of universities nationwide on subjects pertaining to comparative religion. Mr. Mahmoud is an advisory board member of al-Madina Institute and the Executive Editor for the Zaytuna Curriculum Series, which serves the four-year Bachelors Degree program for Zaytuna College , the first Muslim Seminary in North America .
Faraz Khan is a social activist and a thinker who holds a M.A. in liberal arts and a B.A. degree in Environmental Geology. He is a frequent speaker on Islam and Muslim-related conversations on various college campuses and mosques in New Jersey. He received his Ijaza in tajweed in Hafs recitation. Thereafter he went to Damascus to pursue studies in Qira’at (Warsh and Qaloon) and studied Arabic and received certification at the University of Damascus in 2002.
He has served as a Muslim chaplain and Imam at Rutgers University and taught Islamic studies at Noor-Ul-Iman School, NJ. In addition, he is a certified wetland scientist engaged in protection of environmentally sensitive lands and waters in NJ. The focus of his energy lies in environmental ethics, Islamic law, and fine art.
His work in Islamic fine arts is available online http://faraz-khan.fineartamerica.com
Sohaib Sultan is the Muslim Chaplain at Princeton University. (More)