Hamza Yusuf
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Aqida, Fiqh , Islamic Eschatology | |||||||
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Occupation | Islamic scholar, Author | ||||||
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Years active | April 25, 2013–present | ||||||
Subscribers | 128 thousand[4] | ||||||
Total views | 8.7 million[4] | ||||||
Associated acts | Zaytuna College | ||||||
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Last updated: 26 October 2022 | |||||||
Website | sandala |
Hamza Yusuf (born Mark Hanson; 1958)
He is an advisor to both the Center for Islamic Studies at the
Early life and education
Yusuf was born as Mark Hanson in
After being impressed by a young couple from
In 1984, Yusuf formally disassociated himself from as-Sufi's teachings and moved in a different intellectual direction having been influenced by a number of Mauritanian scholars residing in the Emirates. He moved to North Africa in 1984 studying in Algeria and Morocco, as well as Spain and Mauritania.[38] In Mauritania he developed his most lasting and powerful relationship with Islamic scholar Sidi Muhammad Ould Fahfu al-Massumi, known as Murabit al-Hajj.[35]
In 2020, Yusuf completed his Ph.D. at the Graduate Theological Union. His dissertation was titled, "The Normative Islamic Tradition in North and West Africa: A Case Study of Transmission of Authority and Distillation of Knowledge in Ibn Ashir’s Al-Murshid al-Mu’in (The Helpful Guide)." Yusuf previously earned an associate degree in nursing from Imperial Valley College and a bachelor's degree in religious studies from San José State University.
Institution | Degree | Year |
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Graduate Theological Union, CA | PhD, Islamic Studies | 2020[39] |
San Jose State University, CA | B.A., Religious Studies, magna cum laude | 1997[39] |
Imperial Valley College, CA | A.A., English & A.S., Nursing | 1990[39] |
Madrasah Studies
Location | Subject | Year(s) |
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Zaytuna University, Tunisia | Honorary Doctorate, conferred by Shaykh Shadhili Naifer, Dean of Zaytuna University, Tunisia | 1991 |
Granada, Spain | Madrasah Studies | 1987 |
Medina, Saudi Arabia | Madrasah Studies | 1986 |
Twaymarat, Mauritania | Madrasah Studies | 1984–1985 |
Madrasah Bilal ibn Abi Rabah, Tizi, Algeria | Madrasah Studies
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1984 |
Islamic Institute of al-Ain, Emirate of Abu Dhabi | Madrasah Studies | 1981–1984 |
Norwich, England | Islamic Studies, 1977–1980. |
Private Studies
Subject Matter | |
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with his father, David J. Hanson | Grammar, prosody, literature, logic, philosophy, and rhetoric. |
Mortimer Adler | Philosophy and educational theory in seminar format |
Shaykh Abdallah Ould Ahmadna | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Murabit Muhammad Amin | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Iqbal Ahmad al-Adhami | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Ahmad Badawi Tayyid al-Asma | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Muhammad Fatatri al-Azhari | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Murabit al-Hajj | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Abd al-Rahman Ould Murabit al-Hajj | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Murabit Muhammad Hassan Ould al- Hassan | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Abdal Hayy al-Imrawi | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Abdallah al-Kadi | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Hamid Omar al-Wali | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Muhammad al- Yaqoubi | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Murabit Ahmad Fal | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Ahmad Jabir Jibran | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Anas Abu Murad | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Abdal Aziz Qassar | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Sidi Abu Said | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Bayyah Ould Salik | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Mufti Muhammad Ahmad Shaybani | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Abdallah Ould Siddiq | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Muhammad Mahmoud Ould Zaydan | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Shaykh Salih al-Ghursi | Traditional Private Study[40] |
Career
Zaytuna College
He and other colleagues founded the
Hamza Yusuf has been involved in controversies in recent years on issues of race, politics, and the Arab revolutions.[24][25][26][27][28][29][30]
Views and influence
Yusuf has taken a stance against religious justifications for terrorist attacks.[47] He described the 9/11 attacks as "an act of mass murder, pure and simple". Condemning the attacks, he also stated that "Islam was hijacked ... on that plane as an innocent victim."[48]
Yusuf is one of the signatories
Interfaith
Yusuf participates in the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies hosted by the UAE. He praised the UAE for its increasing tolerance and its adoption of multi-faith initiatives and plans to build a multi-faith centre in Abu Dhabi.[51]
Comments on the Syrian Revolution
In 2019, Yusuf urged patience and caution in relation to the Syrian crisis. Although some viewed these comments as supportive of the
2016 Black Lives Matter comments
In December 2016, Yusuf made comments that were perceived as critical of the tactics employed by the Black Lives Matter movement. Yusuf claimed there were more endemic issues facing the black community within, such as the breakdown of family.[55] He also raised concerns about racist sentiments in the Muslim community, where the condemnation of 'white privilege' is fierce, but silent on 'Arab privilege', citing the treatment of Pakistanis and Indians in some parts of the Arab world.[55] For these comments he was attacked on social media, but many scholars defended Shaykh Yusuf, such as Imam Zaid Shakir who stated, "I can say with absolute confidence that there is not a racist bone in Shaykh Hamza’s body. A racist is someone who believes in the superiority of one race over another. Shaykh Hamza, like any serious Muslim, totally rejects that idea."[56]
Publications
Title | Description | Year | Type |
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Agenda to Change our Condition[57] | Co-authored with Zaid Shakir | 1999 | Books and Pamphlets |
Imām al-Zarnūjī, Instruction of the Student: The Method of Learning | Translated by G.E. Von Grunebaum. | 2001 | Books with a foreword or introduction |
Beyond schooling: building communities where learning really matters | Also includes essays by Dorothy L Sayers and Nabila Hanson. Re-edited in 2010 as Educating Your Child in Modern Times: How to Raise an Intelligent, Sovereign & Ethical Human Being.
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2003 | Books and Pamphlets |
Imām Busiri, The Burda: Poem of the Cloak[58] | Includes a CD of performances by The Fez Singers feat. Bennis Abdelfettah. | 2003 | Translations |
Mostafa Al-Badawî, The Prophetic Invocations | 2003 | Books with a foreword or introduction | |
Shaykh Al-Amin Mazrui, The Content of Character | Foreword by Ali Mazrui, son of the author. | 2004 | Translations |
Imām Mawlūd, Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart[59] | Translation and commentary of the poem Maṭharat al-Qulūb composed by a 19th-century Mauritanian scholar. | 2004 | Translations |
Imām Ṭaḥāwī, The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi | 2007 | Translations | |
Caesarean Moon Births: Calculations, Moon Sighting, and the Prophetic Way[60][61] | Available in | 2008 | Books and Pamphlets |
Climbing Mount Purgatorio Archived 2014-09-05 at the Wayback Machine | 2008 | Papers | |
The Prayer of the Oppressed by Imām Muhammad bin Nasir al-Dar'i [62] | Includes a CD of performances by The Fez Singers. | 2010 | Translations |
Joseph Lumbard, Submission, faith and beauty: the religion of Islam | Co-edited with Zaid Shakir. | 2009 | Edited Books |
Hamza Yusuf, Walk on Water: The Wisdom of Jesus from Traditional Islamic Sources[63] | 2010 | Article | |
Reza Shah-Kazemi, Common Ground Between Islam and Buddhism: Spiritual and Ethical Affinities | 2010 | Books with a foreword or introduction | |
Asad Tarsin, Being Muslim: A Practical Guide | 2015 | Books with a foreword or introduction | |
Shaykh Al-Amin Ali Mazrui, The Content of Character: Ethical Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ[64][65] | Translation and Introduction by Hamza Yusuf. Collected by Shaykh Al-Amin Ali Mazrui | 2015 | Translation and Introduction |
Edwin Arnold, Pearls of the Faith[66] | 2017 | Edited and Prefaced | |
Scott F. Crider, The Art of Persuasion Aristotle's Rhetoric for Everybody[67] | The Zaytuna Curriculum Series | 2019 | Books with a foreword or introduction |
Poems
- Spring's Gift
- Be Like Ahmed, a poem dedicated to the Prophet Mohammed, recited at the ceremony of the Prophet's birthday on the 12th of Rabi' al-Awwal (9th of October 2022).
See also
- List of Sufis
- Abdallah Bin Bayyah
- Sheikh Abubakr Ahmad
- Zaid Shakir
- Murabit al-Hajj
- Timothy Winter
- Ali al-Jifri
- Umar bin Hafiz
- Nazim Al-Haqqani
- Umar Faruq Abd-Allah
- Shaykh Yahya rhodus
- Shaykh Habib Kadhim al Saqqaf
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External links
- Media related to Hamza Yusuf at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Hamza Yusuf's channel on YouTube
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Hamza Yusuf Audio Lectures
Photos
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Timothy Winter and Shaykh Hamza
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Shaykh Hamza with Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah
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Shaykh Hamza with Habib Ali Al jfri and Shaykh Yahya Rhodus