Zaid Shakir

Zaid Shakir is an American Islamic scholar, born Ricky Daryl Mitchell in Berkeley, California, on 24 May 1956. He converted to Islam in 1977 while serving in the United States Air Force, took a bachelor's degree in international relations at American University and a master's in political science at Rutgers, then studied for seven years in Syria, becoming in 2001 the first American male graduate of Abu Nour University. ^{1 2}

He co-founded Zaytuna College in Berkeley with Hamza Yusuf and Hatem Bazian and serves as a senior faculty member there. ² His recorded lectures and classes are archived at scale in Muslim Central's podcast series under his name. ³

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Two independent sources name his school: the English Wikipedia article gives his denomination as Sunni and his jurisprudence as Shafi'i, with both values referenced to academic publications, and The Halal Life's scholar profile independently gives the same two values. ^{1 2} The two sources conflict on his creed — Ash'ari in one, Maturidi in the other — so no creed is recorded here.

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