shaykh ahmed abdur rab rabbani

Shaykh Ahmed Abdur Rab Rabbani was born in Hyderabad, India . At the age of 12, he memorized the Quran in Hyderabad under Hafiz Mohammad Ishaq. Then, he decided to embark upon the noble path of Islamic scholarship. Shaykh Rabbani traveled to Dabhel, Gujarat to complete a rigorous 8-year 'Alim program at the Madrasah Islamiyya Ta'leem ud-Din.

At the Madrasah, Shaykh Rabbani was blessed to study Islamic sciences under some of the most distinguished scholars of the Subcontinent such as Shaykh Ibrahim Patni, Shaikh Maulana Fadl-ur-Rahman Azmi, Shaykh Ahmed Khanpuri, and Shaikh Mawlana Wajid Hussain.

Shaykh Rabbani obtained ijazah, authorization to teach, all ten methods of Quranic recitation from Al-Muqri Ahmedullah.

Some of the classic Islamic texts that Shaykh Rabbani studied are Tafseer al-Jalalayn, Aqidah Tahawiyyah, Sahih Bukhari, and the Muwatta of Imam Malik. Shaykh Rabbani possesses ijazah to teach Imam al-Ghazali's renowned Ihya' 'Ulum ad-Din. After graduating from the institution in 1989, he went back to Hyderabad to study ifta', the science of giving legal verdicts, under one of the foremost religious and legal authorities of our time, Mufti Shah Nawal-ur-Rahman, who currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. Shaykh Rabbani completed the program in three years, receiving the authority to interpret Islamic law and issue legal verdicts.

In 1991, Shaykh Rabbani moved to Detroit, Michigan, the center of the state's American Muslim community and has been diligently serving there ever since. As deputy Imam of the Islamic Association of Greater Detroit (IAGD), Shaykh Rabbani has been leading taraweeh salah during the month of Ramadan for the past 16 years, completing the recitation of the entire Qur'an each year. He is the head of the Shari'a Board, Detroit branch. He is a member of the Council of Imams of Michigan and the Ulema' Association of North America. He is fluent in English, Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Hindi, and Gujarati.

Shaykh Rabbani is very much involved with youth activities in the community. He teaches at weekly MYGD Brothers' Halaqas, and has taught at the MYGD Seminar on modesty, and the University of Michigan Muslim Students' Association's 'Sacred Time Project' Seminar. He frequently leads Hajj groups, and teaches Quran, Hadith, and Fiqh at IAGD. Shaykh Rabbani is married, lives in Rochester Hills, MI, and has 4 children.