Islamic Awareness Week 2009

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About our guest speaker Hafiz Amir Toft

A Chicago native, Hafiz Amir Toft completed his memorization of the Quran in 2002 at the Institute of Islamic Education (in west Chicago) and completed his Arabic studies and primary Islamic studies there. Upon earning his B.A. in economics in 2005 from Northwestern University, he spent periods of time in Turkey, Egypt, and South Africa advancing his Islamic education, researching, and living with people and scholars of varying cultural and educational traditions.

Some scholars in whose company he had the good fortune of spending short stays are Shaykh Emin Siraci of Turkey (student of the Ottoman scholar Shaykh Zahid al-Kawthari), Dr. Ahmad Zaki Hammad of Egypt (PhD in Islamic Studies, University of Chicago; translator of the new Gracious Quran: A Modern-Phrased Interpretation in English), and Shaykh Mufti Raza ul-Haq of South Africa (senior mufti of South African Islamic universities).

He is currently taking hiatus from his studies to serve as principal of the Institute of Islamic Education. He has translated from Arabic The Islamic Laws of Animal Slaughter (Ar. Ahkam al-Dhaba’ih) by Shaykh Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani, has edited several publications for White Thread Press (www.whitethreadpress.com), and is at work on several small publications for students of the Arabic language.