Teachers
Scholars who teach in public, with a note on each and where to find their lectures. Nothing is played here: a channel opens on its own site, outside Sabīl.
Listed, not recommended
Sabīl lists these teachers; it does not recommend, rank or vouch for them, and no scholar of Sabīl’s has reviewed the list. What a person teaches is theirs to answer for: if you do not know a teacher, ask a scholar you trust. The notes are in English, taken from the sources named on each card as they stood on the day shown, and say nothing of what a teacher holds.
Teachers and their channels
Each link opens the teacher’s own channel on YouTube, or their own site, in a tab of its own, outside Sabīl. Nothing of theirs is played or shown here, not even a picture; what YouTube shows there, advertisements included, is YouTube’s own.
Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi
Scholar and author, born in DamascusBorn in Damascus in 1963 into a family of scholars; his father was his teacher. He studied Arabic literature at the University of Damascus and philosophy in Beirut. He writes, publishes and teaches under Sacred Knowledge. His books include Refuting ISIS and Shamāʾil al-Ḥabīb al-Muṣṭafā.
- Author of Refuting ISIS
- Author of Shamāʾil al-Ḥabīb al-Muṣṭafā
- Teaches under Sacred Knowledge
Sources: Wikipedia · The channel's own description · checked 26 October 2026
Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah
Scholar and author, AmericanBorn in 1948 in Columbus, Nebraska, and raised in Georgia. He accepted Islam in 1970 and took a doctorate on the origins of Islamic law at the University of Chicago in 1978. He taught in the United States, Canada, Spain and at King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah, and in 2000 returned to Chicago to chair the Nawawi Foundation. He is now scholar-in-residence at The Oasis Initiative. His books include Mālik and Medina and A Muslim in Victorian America.
- Scholar-in-residence, The Oasis Initiative
- Founding chair, the Nawawi Foundation
- Author of Mālik and Medina
No channel of theirs has been confirmed yet, so none is linked.
Sources: Wikipedia · SeekersGuidance · checked 26 October 2026
Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi
Scholar and author, born in HoustonBorn in Houston in 1975 to Pakistani parents. He studied chemical engineering at the University of Houston, then at the Islamic University of Madinah, and took a doctorate in religious studies at Yale. He is dean of The Islamic Seminary of America and resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center, and chairs the Fiqh Council of North America.
- Dean, The Islamic Seminary of America
- Resident scholar, East Plano Islamic Center
- Chair, Fiqh Council of North America
Sources: Wikipedia · The channel's own description · checked 26 October 2026
Shaykh Dr. Hamza Yusuf
Scholar, co-founder of Zaytuna CollegeBorn Mark Hanson in 1958 in Walla Walla, Washington. He accepted Islam in 1977 and studied in the United Arab Emirates and in North and West Africa. In Berkeley he co-founded Zaytuna College, where he is president. He completed a doctorate at the Graduate Theological Union in 2020.
- President, Zaytuna College
- Co-founder, Zaytuna College
Sources: Wikipedia · Zaytuna College · checked 26 October 2026
Dr. Shadee Elmasry
Teacher, founder of Safina SocietyFrom New Jersey. He studied in Makkah, Madinah, Egypt, Morocco and Yemen, took a master's degree at George Washington University and a doctorate at the University of London, and taught Arabic at Yale for four years. He founded Safina Society in 2010 and was religious director of the New Brunswick Islamic Center. Safina Society's channel is home to its livestream.
- Founder, Safina Society
- Has served as religious director, New Brunswick Islamic Center
Sources: Safina Society · checked 26 October 2026
Imam Zaid Shakir
Scholar, co-founder of Zaytuna CollegeBorn in 1956 in Berkeley, California. He accepted Islam in 1977 while serving in the United States Air Force, studied at American University and Rutgers, and then studied the Islamic sciences in Syria, graduating from Abu Nour University in 2001. He co-founded Zaytuna College in Berkeley, led the Muslim Alliance in North America from 2020 to 2022, and co-founded United For Change.
- Co-founder, Zaytuna College
- Co-founder, United For Change
Sources: Wikipedia · The channel's own description · checked 26 October 2026
Mufti Ismail Menk
Scholar and speaker, from ZimbabweBorn in 1975 in Harare, then Salisbury, in what is now Zimbabwe. He memorised the Qur’ān, studied jurisprudence in Madinah, and pursued further study in Gujarat, India. He heads the fatwa department of the Council of Islamic Scholars of Zimbabwe.
- Heads the fatwa department, Council of Islamic Scholars of Zimbabwe
Sources: Wikipedia · The channel's own description · checked 26 October 2026
Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan
Teacher of Arabic and the Qur’ān, founder of BayyinahBorn in 1978 in East Berlin to a Pakistani family, and raised in Saudi Arabia and New York. He worked in information technology before turning to Qur’ānic studies, and taught Arabic at Nassau Community College until 2006. He founded the Bayyinah Institute for Arabic and Qur’ānic Studies in Irving, Texas.
- Founder, Bayyinah Institute
Sources: Wikipedia · checked 26 October 2026
Imam Omar Suleiman
Imam and author, born in New OrleansBorn in 1986 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He holds degrees in accounting and Islamic law, master's degrees in Islamic finance and political history, and a doctorate in Islamic thought and civilization from the International Islamic University Malaysia. He founded and presides over the Yaqeen Institute, and is resident scholar of the Valley Ranch Islamic Center.
- Founder and president, Yaqeen Institute
- Resident scholar, Valley Ranch Islamic Center
Sources: Wikipedia · checked 26 October 2026
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Teacher, founder of SeekersGuidanceA Pakistani-Canadian scholar born in 1974. He studied economics and commerce at the University of Toronto, then studied under scholars in Syria and Jordan. He is founder, education director and instructor at SeekersGuidance, formerly SeekersHub Global, and was executive director of SeekersHub Toronto from 2011 to 2018. The channel describes SeekersGuidance as offering courses, live classes and answers free of charge.
- Founder and education director, SeekersGuidance
- Executive director, SeekersHub Toronto, 2011 to 2018
Sources: Wikipedia · The channel's own description · checked 26 October 2026
Yasmin Mogahed
Educator, author and speaker, born in EgyptBorn in Egypt in 1980. She studied psychology and then journalism and mass communications at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is an educator, author and speaker, and was the first woman to teach for the AlMaghrib Institute.
- Educator, author and speaker
- First female instructor at the AlMaghrib Institute
Sources: Wikipedia · checked 26 October 2026
Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah
Scholar, born in MauritaniaBorn in 1935 in Timbédra, Mauritania. He began his studies with his father and later studied legal judgments in Tunis. He has served as Mauritania's minister of education and minister of justice, teaches at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, and has chaired the UAE Council for Fatwa since 2017. His channel's name and description are in Arabic.
- Teaches at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah
- Chair, UAE Council for Fatwa
Sources: Wikipedia · checked 26 October 2026
Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Jurist and scholar, born in DeobandBorn in 1943 in Deoband, then British India. He studied at Darul Uloom Karachi, the University of Karachi and the University of the Punjab. He was a member of the Council of Islamic Ideology from 1977 to 1981, a judge of the Federal Shariat Court from 1981 to 1982 and of the Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1982 to 2002, and has chaired Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia since 2021.
- Chair, Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia
- Judge, Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, 1982 to 2002
No channel of theirs has been confirmed yet, so none is linked.
Sources: Wikipedia · checked 26 October 2026
Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad
Scholar and theologian, born in LondonBorn Timothy Winter in London in 1960. He took a double first in Arabic at Pembroke College, Cambridge, studied at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, and received a doctorate from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2015. He founded Cambridge Muslim College, which he leads as Dean, and teaches in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. Cambridge Central Mosque's site names him as its chair of trustees, and its channel carries the mosque's sermons and talks.
- Founder and Dean, Cambridge Muslim College
- Chair of trustees, Cambridge Central Mosque
- Shaykh Zayed Lecturer of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge
Sources: Wikipedia · Cambridge Central Mosque · checked 26 October 2026
Dr. Ingrid Mattson
Academic in Islamic studies, born in OntarioBorn in 1963 in Kingston, Ontario. She studied philosophy and fine arts at the University of Waterloo and took a doctorate in Near Eastern languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago in 1999. She holds the London and Windsor Community Chair in Islamic Studies at Huron University College, University of Western Ontario, and is a former president of the Islamic Society of North America.
- Community Chair in Islamic Studies, Huron University College
- Former president, Islamic Society of North America
No channel of theirs has been confirmed yet, so none is linked.
Sources: Wikipedia · checked 26 October 2026
Habib Ali al-Jifri
Scholar and educator, based in CairoA Yemeni Islamic scholar and spiritual educator based in Cairo, Egypt, in Wikipedia's words, and the founder of Tabah Foundation, a research institute based in Abu Dhabi. His own site links the channel on this card.
- Founder of Tabah Foundation
Shaykh Akram Nadwi
Scholar and Principal of Al-Salam InstituteA British Islamic scholar, in Wikipedia's words, and the author of Al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa, a 43-volume biographical dictionary of the lives of 10,000 female hadith scholars and narrators. His talks and classes are published on the channel of Al-Salam Institute.
- Principal of Al-Salam Institute
- Dean of Cambridge Islamic College
Sources: Wikipedia · The channel's own description · checked 30 October 2026
Habib Umar bin Hafiz
Founder and director of Dar al-MustafaA Yemeni Sunni Islamic scholar, in Wikipedia's words, and the founder and director of Dar al-Mustafa, an Islamic seminary in Tarim, Yemen. He has taught the Islamic sciences and written on Islamic teachings and spirituality.
- Founder and director of Dar al-Mustafa, Tarim
No channel of theirs has been confirmed yet, so none is linked.
Sources: Wikipedia · checked 30 October 2026