Umar Faruq Abd-Allah

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Umar Faruq Abd-Allah (born Wymann-Landgraf; born 1948) is an American Islamic theologian, author, spiritual guide, and educator. [1]

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Shaykh Umar Faruq Abd-Allah with Habib Umar bin Hafiz and Shaykh Yahya Rhodus
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Shaykh Umar Faruq Abd-Allah with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Shaykh Yahya Rhodus and Ustad Walead Mohammed Mosaad

Biography

Umar Faruq Abd-Allah was born in 1948 in Columbus, Nebraska to a Protestant family. He was raised in Athens, Georgia, where his parents were employed as professors at the University of Georgia. [2] He later converted to Islam and earned a PhD on the origins of Islamic law from the University of Chicago. [1]

Umar Faruq began his academic career in teaching Arabic and Islamic studies at institutions in the United States and Canada. In 1982, he relocated to Spain to teach Arabic, and in 1984, he was appointed to the Department of Islamic Studies at King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. While in Jeddah, he taught courses on Islamic studies and comparative religion and studied with several traditional Islamic scholars.

In 2000, Umar Faruq returned to the United States to work with the Nawawi Foundation in Chicago, where he remained for over a decade. From 2012 to 2013, he taught Islamic studies at Darul Qasim Institute in Chicago. [3]

Umar Faruq is associated with the Islamic neo-traditionalist movement and is regarded as a prominent figure.

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  1. 1 2 "Umar Faruq Abd-Allah". Renovatio. 2021-05-04. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
  2. "Abd-Allah, Umar F." Religious Studies Center. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
  3. "Umar Faruq Abd-Allah". The Muslim 500. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
  4. Reviews of Mālik and Medina: Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period:
    • Oßwald, Rainer (2018). "Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf, Mālik and Medina: Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period". Der Islam. 95 (2). Walter de Gruyter GmbH: 650–651. doi:10.1515/islam-2018-0046. ISSN   1613-0928. S2CID   166181578.
    • El Shamsy, Ahmed (2014). Ilahiyat Studies, Volume 5, Number 1
    • Syed, Mairaj. Islamic Law and Society 22(3):301-307
    • Dean, J (2014) Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie religieuses Année 2014 94-4 p. 489
    • Lucas, Scott C. (2017). Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 137, No. 3 (July–September 2017), pp. 627-629