Hamza Yusuf
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Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson was born in Walla Walla, Washington and was raised in Northern California in a Greek Orthodox family. Hanson became a Muslim in 1977 in Santa Barbara, California and is one of the most well-versed Islamic scholars in the west. He spent four years studying in the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere in the Middle East. Later he traveled to West Africa and studied in Medina, Algeria, and Morocco for many years under numerous scholars. He is currently the director of the Zaytuna Institute, which he cofounded in California, dedicated to the Revival of Islamic Sciences and the preservation of traditional teaching methods.
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He received teaching licenses in various Islamic subjects from several well-known scholars in various countries. After a ten-year sojourn of studies abroad, he returned to the United States and took degrees in nursing from Imperial Valley College and religious studies at San Jose State University.
He has traveled all over the world giving speeches on Islam. Hanson has translated several classical texts from Arabic and presently teaches in Hayward, California.
He is married and has five sons.
External links
- Zaytuna Institute (http://www.zaytuna.org/)
- MeccaOne Radio Audio: Mercy To Humanity (http://real.meccaone.org:8080/ramgen/%7Emeccaone/audio/meccaonemercy.rm)
- Audio lectures (http://www.returntoislam.com/audios/hamzayusuf/)
- Video: Changing Our Conditions (http://www.returntoislam.com/videos/hamzayusuf/changingourconditions1.wmv)
- Video: Why I came to Islam (http://www.returntoislam.com/videos/hamzayusuf/whyicametoislam.wmv)
Books
- Hamza Yusuf, Purification of the Heart ISBN 1929694156.