Learning Opportunities

  • Ta'Leef Collective: Provides safe space, learning opportunities, and companionship necessary for a healthy understanding, embrace, and realization of Islam. Check out their monthly 'Living Right' discussions with Usama Canon.
  • IIIE: Provides safe space, learning opportunities, and 1:1 help to attain basic correct information about Islam and to empower Muslims through education to be points of inspiration drawing others to the beauty and peace of our Merciful Creator. 
  • Webb Foundations: This organization "seeks to provide facilities and programs that offer guidance and create a spiritually uplifting atmosphere in which the community may prosper within our pluralistic society while maintaining its core beliefs and values." Their highly recommended 2-year Faith Foundations course, led by Omer Mozaffer, can be attended in person or online. This course series provides an excellent foundation for study of the basic Islamic sciences. 
  • American Islamic College: Accredited physical college that provides students of all backgrounds with a solid liberal arts and sciences education that will include a rigorous academic formation in Islamic Studies, thereby conveying a broad understanding of the historical and global forces that have shaped intellectual debates and interpretations as well as the political and social structures of diverse contemporary Muslim societies. Also check out their Arabic programs.
  • Rabata: Virtual classes for women dedicated to building spiritual ties between women, the spiritual upbringing of women by women, and the establishment of the female voice in scholarship. Their free workshop for converts 'Project Lina' helps new converts address issues of culture, creed, and connections with family, friends and community while exploring what it means to be a western female convert in 2013. Ribaat is a four-level online program designed to provide women with a solid foundation in the Islamic sciences - bringing college level Islamic learning to women online.
  • Omer Mozaffer's Qur'an class, recorded on YouTube.
  • Bayyinah: Annual subscription with in-depth lessons on Qur'an, Arabic, and history by Nouman Ali Khan. Nouman is deeply knowledgeable and has a good teaching style - highly recommended. 
  • Bayyinah podcasts explaining the Quran by Nouman Ali Khan, and Bayyinah podcasts of khutbas.
  • ScholarView: A curated, organized collection of high quality Islamic videos. They provide lectures and lessons from a wide variety of teachers regardless of race, gender or sect. 
  • Mishkah University: Virtual university offering Associates and Bachelors degrees in Islamic Studies, and Arabic Language programs.
  • Islamic Online University: Offers online intensive, undergraduate, and graduate courses in Islamic Studies completely tuition-free. 
  • Fadel Soliman's brief YouTube videos addressing common hot-topics in Islam (in Arabic but with English subtitles).
  • Virtual Mosque: Reliable lectures and articles. 
  • Sacred Learning: A collection of lectures about specific topics at the Islamic Center of Chicago.
  • ​Scholar Amr Khaled: Amr Khaled is ranked in top 100 most influential people by Times Magazine. His site is the most popular Islamic site in the World. Additional clips of Arm Khaled's lectures are available here and on YouTube here.