About Us

“ Farid Dingle is an Anglo-Swiss Muslim who grew up in the United Kingdom. After learning Arabic, he travelled to Jordan where he lived for 13 years. Farid studied fiqh, Arabic grammar and rhetoric, Arabic poetry, hadith, tafsir, and theology. Farid holds a BA in Arabic Language and Literature, a post-graduate certificate in Shafi’i fiqh, and a CIFE in Islamic Finance. Among his most influential teachers are Sheikh Nuh Keller, Shaykh Ali Hani, Shaykh Hamza Karamali, Dr Amjad Rasheed (head of the faculty of Shafi’i Fiqh, WISE Univerity, Jordan), Dr Ahmad Hasanat (the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Fatwa of Jordan), Dr Ali Zinou, Dr Ahmad Snobar, Dr Hamza Bakri, Shaykh Akram AbdulWahhab, Shaykh Abdul Malik al-Saadi, and Professor Muhammad Awwad (student of the great Mahmoud Shakir). Farid lives with his family in California where he is Dean of Islamic studies at Hikmah School in Brentwood.