Dr. Omar Qureshi

Omar Qureshi is the Director of Integrated Curriculum at Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research. Prior to this, he was a lecturer (Western and Islamic Philosophy) and head of the Contextual Islamic Studies and Leadership (CISL) Diploma at Cambridge Muslim College. After obtaining his Bachelor of Arts in Microbiology, he went on to complete his M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction – Science Education both from the University of Missouri – Columbia. Later, he completed his Ph.D. in Cultural and Educational Policy Studies: Philosophy of Education at Loyola University Chicago in 2016. His dissertation, entitled “Badr al-Dīn Ibn Jamāʿah and the Highest Good of Islamic Education”, treats the topic of educational institutional identity in the United States. Prior to CMC, he served as the provost and assistant professor of Liberal and Islamic Studies at Zaytuna College. Omar also served as the principal and dean of academics for a parochial school located in Chicago’s West suburbs for seven years.

In the Islamic sciences, Omar has studied texts in Islamic Law – Shāfiʿī, Logic, Kalām theology, Philosophy, Ethics, Islamic Legal Theory (usūl al-fiqh), Qurʾānic sciences and exegesis, Ḥadīth nomenclature, Prophetic Biography and Islamic History