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Shaikh Jamal Zahabi was born in 1957 in Lebanon. He began
his traditional Islamic educational training at the age of
12 when he entered Mahad al-Fatah, a rigorous madrassah in
Damascus, Syria. After spending 6 years there he went on to
complete a degree at the prestigious Azhar Islamic University
in Cairo, Egypt. He later did his Masters degree at the Imam
Muhammad ibn Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia where
he studied with Sheikh Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah (rahimahullah).
His Masters thesis was in the sciences of hadith with a particular
emphasis on the work of Imam Daraqutni. Sheikh Jamal moved
to Canada in 1989 and was the Imam of the Cambridge Mosque
from 1990 to 1994. He also served as Imam of the Dorval Mosque
in Montreal.
Sheikh Jamal has studied with some of the leading scholars
(ulama) of the Levant including: Sheikh Abd al-Razzak al-Halabi
(a master of jurisprudence and the sciences of recitation),
Sheikh Ibrahim Ya`qubi, Sheikh Mahmud Ranqusi, Sheikh Ali
Qallas, Sheikh Abu Sulaiman al-Zuaybi, Sheikh Qattabi and
Sheikh Uthman Siraj ad-Din among others. He has conducted
circles of knowledge and Deen Intensive Programs in many cities
including Toronto, New York, Fez (Morocco), and at the Zaytuna
Institute in Hayward, CA. His last assignment was scholar
in residence with Ni'ma Foundation in New York City.
His detailed education information is as follows
Masters in Islamic Sciences University of Imam Mohammed
Ibn Saoud Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Bachelors in Islamic Sciences Al Azhar University Cairo,
Egypt
Diploma in Islamic and Arabic Sciences Fatah Al Islamic
Institute Damascus, Syria.
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