Subha Seminary Lessons from the Ultimate Love Story with Shaykh Riad Saloojee
We are excited to announce that Shaykh Riad Saloojee will be visiting Ottawa this September for a series of spiritually enlightening talks across the city insha’Allah! Throughout his visit, Shaykh Riad will be addressing a range of impactful topics, from spiritual growth and connecting with the Messenger ﷺ to insights on political-spiritual activism.
Shaykh Riad, a former Ottawa lawyer and advocate for Canadian Muslims, pursued Islamic studies in South Africa and now teaches at the Suhba Seminary in Istanbul.
Don’t miss out on this special opportunity to learn from one of our community’s most respected scholars and reconnect with our faith on a deeper level with grounded contextual advice for our times.
Shaykh Riad studied political science and law in Canada, and is a lawyer by profession. For many years, he was the Executive Director of a national Canadian Muslim advocacy organization, and has worked in the fields of media, human rights and politics. He has written extensively in newspapers across Canada on a variety of religious, social and political issues.
He then traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, and studied the Islamic sciences at Dar al-‘Ulum al-‘Arabiyya al-Islamiyya (DUAI), a well-known Islamic seminary of higher learning, under the auspices of the late Shaykh Taha Karan (may Allah envelope him in His Loving-mercy).
After graduation, he taught a variety of subjects at the seminary, including Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh), the higher objectives of the law (maqasid al-shari‘a), law (fiqh), Prophetic traditions (hadith), and theology (‘aqida). He has also translated a number of Arabic works into English.
His teachers include Shaykh Muhammad Emin Er (may Allah envelope him in His Loving-mercy), Shaykh Mokhtar Maghraoui, and Shaykh Taha Karaan (may Allah envelope him in His Loving-mercy).