Ustadaha Zaynab Ansari

Zaynab Ansari (Umm Salah) comes from a Lebanese-American and African-American background. In 1996, Zaynab’s parents relocated the family to Damascus, Syria, where Zaynab and her younger sister spent four years studying sacred knowledge. During that time, Zaynab obtained a Thanawiyya Shar’iyyah (equivalent to a secondary school diploma) with distinction from Abu Nour Islamic Foundation. There, she was acquainted with the major Islamic sciences, including Arabic, Qur’anic exegesis, Qur’anic recitation, Shafi’i fiqh, sira, hadith, hadith classification, inheritance law, and theology. Her teachers included Ustadh Adnan al-Azmeh, Ustadha Sousan Falah, Ustadha Sanaa, Ustadha Huda al-Habash, Ustadha Samar, and the master Qur’an reciter Shaykh Muhammad al-Sukkar. Zaynab also spent a year studying advanced Arabic at the University of Damascus.

Upon returning to the United States, Zaynab continued her Islamic studies with Sidi Khalil Abdur-Rashid, who studied with traditional scholars in Yemen and Turkey. She also earned a B.A. in History and a B.I.S. in Middle Eastern Studies at Georgia State University, graduating summa cum laude. She has received a number of scholarships, including the Faculty Scholarship Award, the Honors Alumni Scholarship, and the Phi Alpha Theta Award. Zaynab also worked extensively with the MSA at her previous school, Georgia Perimeter College.

In her free time, Zaynab enjoys volunteering for the Islamic Speakers Bureau and writing for Azizah Magazine. She is one of the main teachers behind the SunniPath Answers service, and her answers are highly popular because of their knowledge, wisdom, and sensitivity. She has both taught and TA’d courses at SunniPath Academy. Zaynab is passionate about contributing to an enhanced understanding of Islam in America, with a particular emphasis on the achievements of Muslim women. She is married with one son and currently resides in Atlanta, GA

Courses Taught:

• Essentials of Islam (Hanafi) (Associate Teacher)
• Introduction to Islamic Belief (Associate Teacher)
• Forty Hadith of Imam Nawawi
• Ramadan and You

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