Fasting WHILE FEEDING THE MIND AND SOUL

With Keynote Speakers: Dr. Ali Sulaiman Ali and Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans

Join ALIM on the first Friday of the holy month for a Ramadan Iftar: Fasting While Feeding the Mind and Soul with keynote speakers Dr. Ali Sulaiman Ali and Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans. Come join us for an enriching experience at the Medina Activity Center in Canton, MI, USA. Get your tickets today!

Keynote speakers

Dr. ALi Sulaiman Ali

Dr. Ali Sulaiman Ali was born in Ghana where he spent his childhood studying with various Muslim scholars. He then moved on to Saudi Arabia where he enrolled in Medina’s Islamic University. His curriculum included all the traditional Islamic sciences and in 1979 he graduated with a degree in both Islamic Studies and Arabic. Dr. Ali pursued further scholarship at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) where he received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Islamic Studies. Dr. Ali’s dissertation on Tafsir bil Ma’thurdealing with the question of Hujja (the question of authority of or binding proof) was a seminal study in an important field.

​Dr. Ali is a co-founder, Core Scholar, and member of the Board of Trustees of the American Learning Institute for Muslims (ALIM), an academic institution where scholars, professionals, activists, artists, writers, and community leaders come together to develop strategies for the future of Islam in the modern world.​

Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans

Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans is ALIM’s first Scholar-in-Residence.  He converted to Islam while in high school. Upon conversion, Ustadh Ubaydullah began studying some of the foundational books of Islam under the private tutelage of local scholars.
Since then he has studied at Chicagoland’s Institute of Islamic Education (IIE), in Tarim, Yemen, and Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, where he is the first African-American to graduate from its Shari’a program. Ustadh Ubaydullah also instructs with the Ta’leef Collective and the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN).

As the ALIM Scholar-in-Residence, Ustadh Ubaydullah is a core instructor at the ALIM Summer Program. He teaches History of Islamic Law, Shama'il, and Aphorisims of Ibn Ata'illah along with other courses.