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Imam Zaid Shakir is amongst the most respected and influential Muslim scholars in the West and former member of the U.S. Air Force. He obtained aBA summa cum laude in International Relations at American University inWashington D.C. and later earned his MA in Political Science andInternational Relations at Rutgers University. From 1988 to 1994 he taught as an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Arabic at SouthernConnecticut State University. For seven years in Syria and briefly inMorocco, he immersed himself in an intense study of Arabic, Islamic law,Quranic Studies, and Islamic spirituality with some of the top Muslim scholars of our age. In 2001, he graduated from Syria's prestigious Abu NurUniversity. Currently, as a scholar-in-residence and lecturer at ZaytunaInstitute, he teaches regular courses on Arabic, Islamic Law, History, andIslamic Spirituality.
