Umar Faruq Abd-Allah

[1] Umar Faruq Abd-Allah was born in 1948 in Columbus, Nebraska to a Protestant family.

[2] He received his PhD on the origins of Islamic law from the University of Chicago.

[1] Abd-Allah began his career as a teacher of Arabic and Islamic Studies and taught at different institutions in the United States and Canada.

In 2000, he returned to the United States to serve the Nawawi Foundation in Chicago, where he had spent over a decade.

[3] He has been considered to be a vital figure and leader of the Islamic Neo-Traditionalist movement.