We wish you and yours the most blessed Ramadan wishes! By the grace of Allah, this year’s Ramadan retreat with Sh. Yasir Fahmy was utterly transformative. All recorded sessions are accessible until the end of Ramadan via a private YouTube list that will be sent to those who click the “Retreat Recordings” button below.

We look forward to your participation in our Ramadan month-long program which is open to the public and includes our Saturday Circle and special sessions throughout the month. Scroll down for details on how to join us via Zoom.

SATURDAY CIRCLE
3.8, 3.15, 3.22 via Zoom

شهر أوله رحمة وأوسطه مغفرة
وآخره عتق من النار
“…a month whose beginning is compassion,
whose middle is forgiveness,
whose end is release from the Fire.”
—Salmān al-Fārisī

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SPECIAL SESSIONS
3.17, 3.29 via Zoom

 
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DR. MARIAM SHEIBANI

Dr. Mariam Sheibani is a scholar, educator, and researcher. She is an Assistant Professor of Islamic Thought at Brandeis University and a globally recognized scholar who is passionate about public education and community building. Dr. Sheibani holds an MA in Legal Studies, a second MA and a PhD in Islamic Thought from the University of Chicago, and a postdoc training from Harvard Law School.

Over the last two decades, she has studied the classical religious sciences with scholars from Turkey, Syria, Jordan, North America, and West Africa. Dr. Mariam offers paradigms and frameworks for coherently integrating religious commitment with lived experience. She empowers people to think through critical issues, co-construct solutions to shared challenges, and offer practical tools for cultivating a God-centered and meaningful spiritual life.

Learn more at MariamSheibani.com.

 
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DR. KIARASH JAHED

Dr. Kiaresh Jahed is a former collegiate basketball player, personal trainer, biomedical engineering researcher, and currently a physician practicing Musculoskeletal and Interventional Radiology, having completed his medical training at the University of Louisville and Emory University. After converting to Islam in high school, he grew passionate about Islamic Studies and holistic interpretations of scripture, especially contextualized to modernity. He studied Arabic and Islamic studies in Egypt and Syria, and comparative religious studies in Turkey. Dr. Jahed has previously taught various levels of Arabic language with Dār al-Qāsim and is active with ICNA's educational programs in teaching comparative religion and tafsīr.

 
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USTĀDHA HOSAI MOJADDIDI

Hosai Mojaddidi has been serving the Muslim community for over twenty five years as a teacher, public speaker, author, spiritual counselor, and mental health advocate. She began her religious studies over twenty years ago at the renowned Zaytuna Institute (now Zaytuna College) in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, where for several years she served as the lead female organizer and studied theology, Prophetic biography, Ḥanafī law, ethics, Qur'an recitation, ḥadīth, and Arabic, with several resident and visiting scholars.

Hosai speaks locally and internationally on a range of topics including spirituality, self-development, Prophetic biography, women's issues, family and marriage, youth issues, social media literacy and safety, and mental health. She teaches weekly and monthly spiritual development classes for adults and youth for multiple local and international organizations, as well as logic and debate locally. She uses her social media platforms to promote emotional and spiritual well-being and offers workshops on social-emotional learning from a Muslim perspective for students and educators.

Hosai is a wife and mother of two and resides in California with her family.

RAMADAN PROGRAMMING

RAMADAN PROGRAM 2025
(open to the public)

All sessions are according to Eastern Time and will be uploaded to our YouTube channel for convenient viewing.

Saturday Circle via Zoom
3.8 | 1200 – 1300 Compassion – Dr. Maryam Sheibani
3.15 | 1200 – 1300 Forgiveness – Ustādhah Hosai Mojaddidi
3.22 | 1200 – 1300 Release – Dr. Kiarash Jahed
Special Sessions via Zoom
3.17 | 2200 – 2330 DIAMOND AMONG PEARLS | Laylat al-Qadr
El-Hajj Hisham Mahmoud
3.29 | 1200 – 1300 RINGS OF LIGHT | Duʿāʾ al‑Khatm

FASTING
The Sustenance of Souls

Recorded sessions now available
until the end of Ramadan

ما ملأ ابن آدم وعاء شرا من بطن

“The child of Adam will fill no vessel
worse than his own stomach.”
—Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

 
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EL-HAJJ HISHAM MAHMOUD

El-Hajj Hisham Mahmoud studied theology, hadith, legal theory, jurisprudence, ethics, Qur’an recitation, and Arabic with scholars in Morocco, Mauritania, and Egypt. He taught for more than a decade at Yale, Princeton, and Harvard, then left the Academy to institute Lanturna, an educational initiative that intends to establish learning collectives to carry forward the legacies of our greatest luminaries. He continues to read with scholars and students in the United States and abroad.

 
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SH. YASIR FAHMY

Shaykh Yasir Fahmy is an Instructor on Muslim Studies at the Harvard Divinity School. He began the study of Arabic and Islamic Sciences in his high school years under the guidance of local teachers. At the age of seventeen, he traveled to Amman, where he spent a year studying at the Islamic University of Jordan, then returned to the States to complete a Bachelor’s of Science degree from Rutgers University. After working in corporate America for three years in finance, he enrolled at the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo.

After seven years of intensive study, Shaykh Yasir received a degree in Islamic Studies from Al-Azhar and attained numerous ijāzāt (independent certifications) in the subjects of fiqh, ḥadīth, ʿaqīdah, uṣūl al-fiqh, sīrah, tazkiyyah, manṭiq, Arabic grammar, morphology, and rhetoric. In 2013, Shaykh Yasir Fahmy became the first American Azhari to teach at the renowned al-Azhar Mosque.

Through his teaching, lecturing, mentorship, and religious leadership, Shaykh Yasir aims to foster love for the religion and appreciation of the vast richness of the Islamic tradition among American Muslims.

RETREAT RECORDINGS

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