Shaykh Ubaydullah Evans

Shaykh Ubaydullah Evans is the first Scholar-in-Residence at American Learning Institute for Muslims. He converted to Islam while in high school. Upon conversion, Shaykh Ubaydullah began studying some of the foundational books of Islam under the private tutelage of local scholars while simultaneously pursuing a degree in journalism from Columbia.

Since then he has studied at Chicagoland’s Institute of Islamic Education (IIE), in Tarim,Yemen, and at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, where he became the first African American to graduate from its Shari’a program.

Shaykh Ubaydullah also teaches with the Ta’leef Collective and the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN).