Critical Analysis of Shirk

Yasir Qadhi graduated with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston, after which he was accepted as a student at the Islamic University of Madinah. After completing a diploma in Arabic, he graduated with a B.A. from the College of Hadith and Islamic Sciences, and completed a M.A. in Islamic Theology from the College of Da'wah. He then completed an MA, MPhil and PhD from Yale University. The topic of his doctoral dissertation was 'Reconciling Reason and Revelation in the Writings of Ibn Taymiyya.'

Dr Qadhi is the Dean of Academic Affairs at Al-Maghrib Institute, the man behind the curriculum and other academically intensive programs like IlmSummit. He is also one of the founders of MuslimMatters.org, an online blog about Islam and Muslims.

Currently, he is a professor at Rhodes College, in Memphis, TN, where he lives with his wife and four children.