Shaykh Kamaluddin Ahmed was born and raised in Manhattan. While at college at the University of Chicago, he turned to religion, and in 1999, he left America to spend twenty years abroad. He pursued the classical disciplines of Islamic learning, becoming a traditionally trained Islamic scholar, receiving the ʿĀlimiyyah and Takhassus fi’l-Fiqh degrees. He then served as an instructor and guide to university students and professionals in Pakistan, England, and South Africa.

From 2005–2013, he was a professor of Islamic Thought and Intellectual History at leading universities in Pakistan, including LUMS and AKU. In 2017, he returned to academia to pursue a PhD in Islamic Intellectual History at the University of Oxford. From 2020–2023, he held research fellowships in Islamic philosophy at Princeton University and Yale University.

Shaykh Raiyaan Atif was raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He completed the memorization of the Holy Qur’an at a young age. Thereafter, he began his ʿĀlimiyyah studies locally at Georgia Islamic Institute, continuing at Tibyaan Seminary, and finally completing the 7 year curriculum at DarusSalam Seminary.

He subsequently pursued a Master’s Degree in Islamic Education at the University of Warwick while continuing classes in Hadith and Tafsir at his alma mater. Finally, he travelled to Istanbul, Türkiye where he spent two years pursuing specialized training in the field of Hadith and tahqiq (manuscript research and editing).

Shaykh Mohammad Ahyan Yoonas is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, where he began his Islamic education by completing Ḥifẓ at Masjid Omar bin Abdul Aziz. He pursued his ʿĀlimiyyah studies at Tibyan Seminary and later at DarusSalam Seminary, from which he graduated in 2023.

He subsequently earned a Master’s degree in Islamic Texts with a concentration in Islamic Law from Zaytuna College, where he authored his thesis titled “Critically Speaking: Early Matn Criticism in the Ḥanafī Madhhab from Shaybānī to Ṭaḥāwī.”

Deeply committed to community education, Ahyan has regularly delivered seminars, intensives, and lectures across the Metro Atlanta area. His intellectual interests center on Uṣūl al-Fiqh, Kalām, Philosophy, and the broader landscape of Islamic Intellectual History.

ʿĀlimah Syeda Zeba was raised in the UAE and the U.S. A mother of six, she studied Tajwīd in St. Louis and began Tazkiyah training in Chicago. She completed her Alimah/Shariah degree in Lusaka, Zambia at Jamia Zainab in 2015.

She is co-founder of Makkiyyah Institute and teaches advanced hadīth and other sciences. She also has experience in community counseling and regularly teaches women and youth globally.