Zaytuna College, Year One

Making Faith and Learning Coexist

By the Grace of God, it has been a momentous twelve months for Zaytuna College. We have achieved significant and historic accomplishments, the highlight being the arrival of a group of incredible students from across America who now represent our inaugural freshman class. We also moved into our new campus in Berkeley, and, with a new cohort of students arriving for Fall 2011, we are expanding rapidly.

As our students near the completion of their second semester, we ask you to join us for a look back -- and a look forward -- at a venture that many thought not possible. Two of our co-founders, Imam Zaid Shakir and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, will welcome you to this special dinner reception and lead a discussion about the critical role that Zaytuna College can play in American higher education.

Hosts

Imam Zaid Shakir
Co-founder, Zaytuna College

Zaid Shakir is an American Muslim who came of age during his country's civil rights struggles, and he brings sensitivity about race and poverty as well as scholarly discipline to his faith-based work. He is a co-founder of Zaytuna College and has studied the traditional Islamic sciences for several years in the Muslim world.

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
Co-founder, Zaytuna College

Hamza Yusuf is an American convert to Islam who studied for several years under leading scholars in the Muslim world. He is the co-founder of Zaytuna College in California and has translated into modern English several classical Arabic texts and poems.