Imam Nihal Khan

Imam Nihal Khan is trained as an Imam, chaplain, educator, and academic. He is the founder of Maktab Academy, which serves as a platform to invite Muslim professionals to engage and learn about their faith, and where he will be teaching a Cover-to-Cover tafsir of the Qur'an in English after Ramadan. He is also the host of the Faith in Fine Print podcast, and an Arabic teacher at Fawakih Institute. Previously, he received a BA in Psychology from Montclair State University and then in Lucknow, India, Imam Nihal received an ‘ālimiyya degree in the Islamic sciences from Nadwatul ‘Ulamā. After that, Imam Nihal graduated with an MA in Religious Studies from Hartford Seminary, during which time he also completed coursework at Harvard Divinity School. Since 2021, Imam Nihal has been living in Istanbul with his wife. There, between conducting private classes, he studied the Islamic rational sciences at Darul Funün Institute and Ibn Haldun University.