{"id":1480,"date":"2021-01-25T05:37:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T05:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/?page_id=1480"},"modified":"2025-05-15T21:32:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T21:32:51","slug":"dr-omar-qureshi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/faculty\/dr-omar-qureshi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Omar Qureshi"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1480\" class=\"elementor elementor-1480\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-423b437 header-inner-title elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"423b437\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0f08291\" data-id=\"0f08291\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a2ba27 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4a2ba27\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Dr. Omar Qureshi<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b76708c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b76708c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" 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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 \u2013 Science Education both from the University of Missouri \u2013 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 \u201cBadr al-D\u012bn Ibn Jam\u0101\u02bfah and the Highest Good of Islamic Education\u201d, 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\u2019s West suburbs for seven years.\n\n\n<br><br>In the Islamic sciences, Omar has studied texts in Islamic Law \u2013 Sh\u0101fi\u02bf\u012b, Logic, Kal\u0101m theology, Philosophy, Ethics, Islamic Legal Theory (us\u016bl al-fiqh), Qur\u02be\u0101nic sciences and exegesis, \u1e24ad\u012bth nomenclature, Prophetic Biography and Islamic History\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riwaq Instructor 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13537,"href":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1480\/revisions\/13537"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}