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