Zaid Shakir

Zaid Shakir

Imam Zaid Shakir (Arabic: زيد شاكر, "Zaid Shākir") is an African-American Muslim speaker and intellectual in the United States. In 2003, he moved to Hayward, California with his family to serve as a scholar-in-residence and lecturer at Zaytuna Institute where he now teaches regular courses on Arabic, Islamic Law, History, and Islamic Spirituality.

See also

* List of Islamic scholars
* Hamza Yusuf

External links

* [http://www.zaytuna.org www.zaytuna.org]
* [http://www.zaidshakir.com Imam Zaid Shakir's website]
* [http://www.halaltube.com/zaid-shakir Zaid Shakir's Audio and Video lectures]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/us/18imams.html?ex=1308283200&en=0efbc4624383a46b&ei=5088 New York Times 06-18-2006]
* http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/zaid_shakir/


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