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Shaykha Shaista Maqbool

Shaykha Shaista Maqbool spent ten years in Damascus, Syria, where she learned Arabic and advanced Islamic sciences e.g. fiqh, seerah, tafseer, hadith, and ‘aqeedah, amongst others. Sha.Shaista started her studies as a teenageer in Queens, NY, under the tutelage of Sh.Abdullah al-Adhami. She studied in the US with Sh.Muhammad al-Yaqubi as well. She then traveled to Syria where she studied under numerous teachers of the highest caliber, amongst them: Sh.Adib al-Kallas, Sh.Samer al-Nass, Sh.Muhammad al-Jum’uah, Sh.Mazin Bakeer, and Sh.Na’eem al-Arqsusi. She is licensed in tajweed from the late Sh.Abul-Hassan al-Kurdi (may Allah have mercy on him). She has studied the Shafi’i and Maliki schools, though her specialty is in the Hanafi school. She is authorizes to teach and give fatwa. She has a passion for seerah and hadith. Including having read (heard) the 6 canonical books of Sunnah, she has read numerous other hadith texts. She has heard the Shamail of Tirmidhi eight times; Sahih Bukhari three times. She studied seerah with the late, great author of the Prophet Seerah, Anisa Sameerah Za id, may Allah have mercy on her. As well as hearing it from Sh.Samer al-Nass, aSha. Tamara Gray, and Sh.Gibreel al-Haddad. She has listened to Habib Umar’s seerah online as well. Sha. Shaista is an expert in the fiqh of menstruation in the Hanafi school (known to be one of the most difficult chapters in fiqh) which she would teach in Syria to other Arab students as well as the wives of her shuyukh. It is rare to find a woman with her credentials who speaks English as a first language. In May, 2011, just as protests were starting to break out, Ust. Shaista left Damascus with her newborn baby. She currently resides in Albany, NY with her husband and four children. She teaches locally at her mosque and through social media. She continues to seek Sacred Knowledge when possible.

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