Sohaib sultan biography channels

The central New Jersey community lost a friend, a brother, and a guide on April 16th, 2021. Imam Sohaib Sultan stands as a model leader for the Muslim community and chaplains of all faiths across the country. His ability to build sincere relationships with hundreds of community members and address the needs of so many through creative and thoughtful programming, as well as individual counseling, was unparalleled.

Imam Sohaib Nazeer Sultan, a Hamilton resident who served as the first full-time Muslim Life Coordinator and Chaplain at Princeton University, died (date) after a year-long battle with a rare and aggressive form of bile duct cancer. He was 40.

A beloved and well-known figure on campus and in the greater Mercer County community for more than a dozen years, was passionate about interfaith dialogue and was known as a bridge-builder who worked to foster strong relationships between the Muslim community and other faith communities.

Imam Sohaib was born in North Carolina and raised in Indiana. He became interested in studying Islamic traditions from a young age because of his father’s work as a scholar in Islamic education. When he was 11, he and his family moved to Saudi Arabia, where he learned Quranic recitation. He returned to the United States at the age of 16 and finished high school in Charlottesville, Virginia. He then earned a degree in journalism and political science from Indiana University, where he was a President and Senior Adviser of the Muslim Students Association and was honored by the University for his cultural diversity efforts. After graduation, he worked as a freelance journalist in Chicago and was an Islamic affairs analyst for BBC Radio, where he worked on a series of dialogues on Muslim-Christian relations in the United States.

A graduate of Hartford Theological Seminary, Sultan was the first Muslim chaplain at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He was one of eight people profiled in the PB

Assalamu alaykum,As I begin my own spiritual journey, I want to hear from those who have taken this path before me. This podcast focuses on them and listening to their stories — uninterrupted. My name is Hebah Masood and I invite you to reflect on the trajectories of their lives, and the guidance and blessings provided by Allah swt along that journey.Ustadh Tariq Ameer grew up in a family that was part of the Nation of Islam and then made the transition to Sunni Islam with WD Muhammed. His own journey began with the Muslim Student’s Association at Morehouse, a historically black men’s college, in Atlanta. Once he started on his path he was able to learn how to read Arabic in one week and began studying part time. He would eventually follow the path of his teacher Ustadh Jamal Hysaw to Tarim, Yemen.He is currently a prison chaplain with the New Jersey Department of Corrections and a student at Bayan Islamic Graduate School. He also teaches at New Brunswick Islamic Center with Safina Society in NJ, the Muslim Education and Converts Center of America in NYC and his own institute based out of Newark, Al-Muwatta.Listen as he gives a rich and detailed description about living and studying in Hadhramaut, Yemen and learning from teachers who exemplify Prophetic character. He also talks about his important work as a prison chaplain and giving dawah to those who are incarcerated a segment of society many of us rarely think about.My sincere apologies for the poor sound quality for the first half hour.Ustadh Tariq’s story intersects with many familiar names: Habib Omar, Habib Hashim bin Sahl, Habib Tahir Al Attas, Imam Zaid Shakir, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Imam Siraj Wahaj, Shaykh Suhaib Webb, Ustadh Jamal Hysaw, Imam Adeyinka 'Muhammad' Mendes, Shaykh Khalil Abdur-Rashid, Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, Imam Abdul Malik, Shaykh Hamza Karamali, Shaykh Amin Buxton, Shaykh Yahya Rhodus, Dr. Shadee Elmasry, Shaykh Yusuf Weltch, Shaykh Zane Abdo, Imam Rasul Suluki and Atib

Shaykh Dr. Asim Yusuf

Shaykh Dr. Asim Yusuf is one of the most senior English speaking scholars in the UK, as well as a full time medical doctor, author, poet and singer. He specialises in Islamic metaphysics, psychology and spirituality. 

He has studied widely and received authorisation from senior traditional scholars from around the world. In particular, he is considered an authority on Islamic Psychology and its philosophy, and a specialist in Islamic bioethics, astronomy, and metaphysics.

His studies have included the majority of the branches of the Islamic sciences, including advanced study of theology, philosophy, Islamic law (primarily Hanafi, but also basic studies of the Shafii and Maliki schools), Quranic hermeneutics, the principles of hadith critique, juristic principles and the philosophy of Islamic law, the grammar and philosophy of the Arabic language, classical and modern logic, western and Islamic rhetoric, hadith commentary, shamail and tasawwuf. He has taught most of these subjects over the years. Since 2014, he has been engaged in a complete reading, commentary and analysis of the Ihya Ulum al-Din of Imam Ghazali, one of the greatest masterworks of the Islamic tradition, and has to date completed the first third of the forty books with his students.

He is the author of several books, most notably Shedding Light on the Dawn, as well as being a poet and traditional singer better known by his pseudonym Talib al-Habib, with three well-received nasheed albums to his name. 

In 2022, Shaykh Asim was awarded an OBE by her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in her Platinum Jubilee honours for theological leadership and services to the Muslim community during the COVID pandemic of 2020/1. He was selected to be the Sunni Muslim faith representative to meet King Charles III upon his accession to the throne.