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In my capacity as a religious leader and pilgrim guide, I spent the last couple of decades studying and learning with and from Muslim communities across the global north and south. My international engagements have privileged me with a unique aptitude of blending research methods from both traditional Islamic principles and western academic disciplines.

To each class, I bring my earnest enthusiasm to learn more. I make it a point to acknowledge the minds, bodies, and emotions of all the participants to ensure that we engage wholly with the discourse. I believe in making room in one’s mind and heart for new paradigms and strive to provide a safe, non-judgmental, amicable space for sharing experiences and active learning. I draw on reflective, participatory, inclusive, multi-sensory, and process-focused pedagogies that engage with the micro-dynamics already present in the learning space and connect that to the larger theories and systems at play. I always leave a class more enriched than the time I entered it.