Dr. Omar Qureshi

Dr Omar Qureshi is a lecturer in Western and Islamic Philosophy and serves as the head of the Diploma in Contextual Islamic Studies & Leadership (CISLD) at Cambridge Muslim College. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Microbiology and subsequently completed his M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction – Science Education, both from the University of Missouri – Columbia. Later, he earned his Ph.D. in Cultural and Educational Policy Studies with a specialization in the Philosophy of Education from Loyola University Chicago in 2016. His dissertation, titled “Badr al-Dīn Ibn Jamāʿah and the Highest Good of Islamic Education,” explores the topic of educational institutional identity in the United States. Before joining Cambridge Muslim College, he served as the provost and assistant professor of Liberal and Islamic Studies at Zaytuna College. Dr Qureshi also held the positions of principal and dean of academics at a parochial school located in the western suburbs of Chicago for seven years.

In the field of Islamic sciences, Dr Qureshi has studied various subjects, including Islamic Law (Shāfiʿī), Logic, Kalām theology, Islamic Philosophy, Islamic Legal Theory (usūl al-fiqh), Qurʾānic sciences and exegesis, Ḥadīth nomenclature, Prophetic Biography, and Islamic History.”