Habeeb Quadri
Educator, Author, and Youth Activist.
Bilal Ali Ansari received his undergraduate education in Computer Engineering at the
University of Illinois in Urbana, IL, and in the Applied Behavioral Sciences at National-Louis
University in Lisle, from where he graduated with a Bachelors in Arts in the field of Applied
Behavioral Sciences with a focus on adult learning theory (andragogy). He also studied
Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Jāmiʿat al-Ḥasanayn in Faisalabad, Pakistan, where he
mastered classical and modern texts in Arabic, Islamic Theology, Islamic Law, Qur’anic
Studies, and Hadith. Mawlana Bilal holds certification in hadith from various reputable
Islamic scholars and continued his studies in discursive theology (kalām), Islamic
Jurisprudence (uṣūl al-fiqh), and Islamic Philosophy at Darul Qasim. His research interests
include early Hadith methodology and nomenclature, Ḥanafī legal theory, education and
curriculum development, Mental Health, and Islamic Bioethics. He currently teaches courses
in Arabic, Islamic Law, and Hadith Studies.
