Imam Mansoor Sabree
Imam Mansoor Sabree is the Resident Imam of the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam in Atlanta, GA. In addition to serving as the religious leader, Imam Sabree is also Director of the Atlanta Masjid, responsible for administrative, legal, and financial functions for the Atlanta Masjid activities. His professional experience includes religious program planning, interfaith dialogue, building construction and land development. Imam Sabree’s education and training include Arabic, Islamic law/jurisprudence, international business, and community organizing.

Ustath Jamal Ud-Deen Hysaw
Ustath Jamal Ud-Deen embraced Islam at masjid Al-Fatir in Chicago, IL in 1992, after graduating from Southern Illinois University, receiving a BA in Political Science. Since then he has had the honor of studying various Islamic Sciences in both Damascus, Syria for 3 years and Tarim, Yemen for 4 years under some of today’s foremost scholars. Prominent among his teachers are: Habib Umar bin Muhammad bin Salim bin Hafidh, Habib Ali Zayn al- Abideen al-Jifry, Habib Abdur Rahman bin Hafidh, and Sheikh Umar hussain Al-Khatib. After completing his studies, Ustath Jamal Ud-Deen received permission from his teachers to teach and comment on books of Shafi Fiqh, Aqida, Hadith, , and the Sciences of the Heart.Shaykh Jamal Ud-Deen presently resides in Atlanta, Georgia with family where he has become a Islamic cultural activist, planning and promoting various cultural programs. He also conducts regular learning programs, and study circles. He participates in various seminars and retreats and he travels abroad to deliver lectures in major universities, such as Oxford and Cambridge, and in local Masjids . He is currently studying under Sheikh Muhammad bin Yahya An-Ninowy, and Sheikh Khalil Abdur-Rashid. He is currently the acting chairman of EID Entidad Islamica Dominicana.

Imam Khalil Abdullah
Imam Khalil Abdullah holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in organizational leadership and postgraduate religious studies at Hartford Seminary.He’s worked as a newspaper reporter, covering education and city government, and has taught in both public and private schools, including Islamic studies and Arabic for Mohammed Schools.For the past several years, Imam Abdullah has held various retail management positions, developing an interest in leadership and organizational culture while focusing his graduate studies on faith in the workplace issues. He’s especially interested in Muslim business management practices and how the world’s faith traditions shape our attitudes toward work and labor.Aside from his graduate studies, Imam Abdullah’s interests in religion include Quranic commentary,comparative religious studies and the history of Muslims in America. He’s a devoted student of the late Muslim American leader W. Deen Mohammed, having worked closely with his ministry in the area of public relations and young adult leadership organizations.Imam Abdullah has served as imam at mosques in Texas, South Carolina and Georgia, and has traveled across the United States lecturing on Islam and interfaith relations. He currently lives in Atlanta.

Imam Sulaimaan Hamed
Sulaimaan Abdul Hamed, began his early education attending Clara Mohamed School in Oakland California.
After completing high school and gaining years of work experience, Sulaimaan was afforded, through an arrangement between Imam Warith Deen Mohammed and the Grand Mufti of Damascus, Syria, Sheik Ahmed Kuftaro, a scholarship for the study of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Abu Nour University.Imam Hamed has also completed specialized studies in Saudi Arabia and Cairo,Egypt.Teaching experience includes serving in The Quran and Salat Institute and as assistant Imam in Oakland,CA and interim Imam in Fresno,CA.Currently Imam Sulaimaan is CEO of Hajj Pros a full service Hajj and Umrah company and teacher of Arabic and Islamic studies at Muhammad Schools of Alanta and assistant Imam at Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam.

Ustath Muhammad Mendes
Ustadh Muhammad Adeyinka Mendes established the Annual Rawdah (www.therawdah.org), a grassroots educational initiative, continued his studies with various scholars in Houston and Pittsburgh, and has focused on translating and teaching rare Arabic manuscripts concerning theology, jurisprudence, ethics, and spirituality authored by some of West Africa’s greatest spiritual and intellectual giants.Muhammad Mendes challenges people to learn the fundamentals of theology, worship, and spiritual evolution in accord with Revealed Scripture and Reason, appreciate their commonality as human beings, celebrate the God-given diversity that makes each one of us valuable, and to live lives of spiritual and material significance that leave their corner of the world in a better condition than that in which they found it.Currently, he and his family reside in Atlanta where he teaches at the Risala Institute on weekends, works full time, and continues his studies with various scholars.

Fatima Khokhar is a world citizen. Born and raised in Seattle, WA she has also lived around the nation and world in places such as Washington DC, Malaysia, and Pakistan. Fatima spent 4 years in Damascus, Syria studying Arabic and Islamic sciences at the Abu Nour Islamic institute and university. She joined the Atlanta
Muslim community in 2005. Since then, Fatima has taught Quranic recitation for girls and women, hosted a high school mentor-ship program for Muslim girls, and been a substitute teacher of Islamic and Arabic studies at the Mohammed Schools of Atlanta. Along with being a trained doula, Fatima is also a Montessori teacher. Currently she is teaching at a local Montessori school gaining experience she hopes to bring back to the Muslim community. Fatima resides in East Atlanta with her husband, Imam Mansoor Sabree, and their two children.

Shahidah Sharif has an extensive background in Islamic education and community service from a young age working with organizations such as Muslim Youth of North America, Clara Mohammed School of South Florida and Oakland, CA, and the Islamic Society of the University of Miami, and United Youth Leadership Forum of the Bay Area, where she organized and coordinated many events to serve the Muslim and non-Muslim community. She studied for three years at the Abu Nour University in Damascus through the Mosque Cares Study Abroad Program with a focus on the Arabic language and the Islamic Sciences. She currently serves as secretary on the Board of Sisters United in Human Service, Inc, as the Program Director of the Faith Institute of the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam, and is co-founder and COO of Professional Hajj and Umrah Guides, LLC organizing delegations annually with her husband for the Hajj, or pilgrimage to Makkah, Saudi Arabia. She currently resides in the East Atlanta neighborhood with her family.

Jamillah Karim is author of the award-winning book American MuslimWomen: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah. She earned her Ph.D. in Islamic Studies at Duke University. Karim specializes in Islam in America, women and Islam, and race and immigration. Her most recent academic appointment was as associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Spelman College where she taught courses in the study of Islam for six years. In 2010 Karim traveled with her family to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where she began her blog “Race+Gender+Faith.” As an independent scholar currently residing in Atlanta, GA, she is writing her second book in collaboration with an American history scholar in the UK. Due out in 2013 by New York University Press, the book explores women’s experiences and contributions in the Nation of Islam from the 1930s to the present. She is married to Hud Williams and is the mother of two boys, Yahya and Lut.

Other teachers include; Sheik Ibrahim Pasha, Imam Plemon El-Amin, Dr. Ahmed Bangura