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| Type | Non-profit Educational |
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| Founded | 2003? |
| Headquarters | Houston, Texas, United States |
| Area served | United States, Canada, United Kingdom |
| Key people | Muhammad
Alshareef, Founder Waleed Basyouni, Vice President Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi, Dean of Academic Affairs |
| Industry | Education |
| Products | seminars |
| Website | www.almaghrib.org |
AlMaghrib Institute is an Islamic institution founded in 2001 by Muhammad Alshareef in cooperation with Dar-us-Salaam in College Park, Maryland. The Islamic Institute offers seminars to Muslims located in Canada, the United States, and the UK.[1]
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After graduating from Islamic University of Medina, found Muhammad Alshareef studied the western education system. Looking at all the weak points, Alshareef designed a seminar system where people's regular excuses wouldn't qualify. From this the theme of the institute was born, "Give your excuse a black eye!" and the Islamic courses were designed into two weekend seminars focused on one topic as opposed to the multiple topics approach that most weekend conferences take.[2]
AlMaghrib Institute holds classes in seminar format in multiple cities throughout North America, Canada and the United Kingdom, and its main offices in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It has also implemented a competitive system, where each location in which a class is taught acts as a team (referred to as a tribe or "Qabeelah" in Arabic); each Qabeelah has its own forum on a central community site.[3] An instructor is sent every few months to each location for two weekends to teach a seminar on a particular topic.[4] The seminar takes place over two weekends beginning Friday night and ending Sunday night on each weekend. This concept has mushroomed from classes of 25 students to seminars for 700 to 800 people.[4]
In the UK, AlMaghrib classes are held in London, Bradford and Birmingham; in Canada, in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, London,Ontario and Windsor; in the US, in New York, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. Columbus, the Bay Area, Atlanta, Houston, Memphis, Chicago, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Boston, Tulsa, and Miami.
All twelve of its instructors have degrees from Islamic universities–five from the Islamic University of Madinah, two from other Saudi Arabian universities, two from American Islamic universities, and two from Al-Azhar University.[5]
AlMaghrib institute currently offers 22 courses on topics such as ethics, exegesis, history of Islam, marriage and family life, the literary qualities of the Qur’an,[6] and fundamentals of faith.
AlMaghrib Institute has held a yearly conference known as IlmFest over the past few years starting with Chicago, IL in 2006, Toronto, ON in 2007, New York City in 2008 and Baltimore, MD in 2009.[7]
IlmFest is an opportunity for the AlMaghrib instructors to come in with different topics. It allows AlMaghrib Institute to pick up on some current issues. IlmFest separates itself from other Muslim conferences by the tendency of those coming to the event to be more focused on seeking knowledge. Even though it's a conference setting, you'll actually see people with notebooks and pens. The objective of IlmFest is to give a public space to make Muslims feel there's nothing wrong at all with being who they are and there's nothing wrong with expressing your beliefs, with being proud of being who you are.[8]
Umar Mutallab, who attempted to bomb Northwest Airlines Flight 253 was an attendee at the August 1-17 2008 IlmFest. [9]
Ilm Summit is a yearly intensive retreat headed by Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi - the Dean of Academic Affairs at AlMaghrib Institute. The objective is to teach and train a focused group of people on specific subjects of Islamic sciences and train them how to teach their communities on the same subjects. Ilm Summit aims to be the best academic experience that people have seen in the English language. The ultimate goal is to teach a group of dedicated teachers who are effective callers and teachers of Islam to take Islamic knowledge back to their communities while having a connection with orthodox Islam.[10]
AlMaghrib Institute has spoken out against extremist acts of violence in the name of Islam. In one of the largest AlMaghrib's largest conventions in the US, Vice President Waleed Basyouni used evidences from the Quran and recognized Muslim scholars to prove that extremism in Islam is considered an innovation (i.e. a concept outside of the permissible parameters of the religion). It is AlMaghrib's stance that anyone who carries arms and recruits individuals in order to bring disturbance and violence to a community is not tolerated by the laws of Islam.[11]
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