Jumuah with Visiting Guest Scholar, Abdul Muhaymin Al-Salim, Imam at Grinnell College

Join Tayba Foundation’s scholar for a special Ramadan Jumuah, Friday Prayer Service. Jumuah will take place in the Muslim Prayer Room in the lower level of Thompson Memorial Chapel (TMC). Williams has a Policy on Observance of Religious Holidays so please email or speak to your professor if you need accommodations to step away from class to attend Jumuah. For questions about Ramadan or religious accommodations, please contact Muslim Chaplain Sidra Mahmood at sm45@williams.edu.

For more information on the series of special Ramadan events with Tayba Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports incarcerated Muslims, please see the website, Ramadan Behind Bars.

Khatib (Preacher) Bio:

Abdul Muhaymin Al-Salim (Eugene Priester, III) started as a student with the Tayba Foundation in 2013 and has been on the staff as a Sr. Instructor since 2016. He also works as the Imam at Grinnell College, providing religious leadership and spiritual care for the Muslim students & staff while serving as a staff resource for the Islamic perspective on social and religious issues. He mentors and teaches youth and Muslims and is a mayoral task force appointee in his home community in Savannah, GA.

Abdul Muhaymin has an MA in Islamic Studies and Religious Leadership from The Islamic Seminary of America (TISA). He is now in the Doctor of Ministry program at the Catholic Theological Union, studying Practical Theology focusing on Leadership &Ethics.

He continues his studies of the traditional Islamic sciences and has Ijazat (License to transmit) in Hadith, Theology (`Aqida`), and the Foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence (Usul al-Fiqh). He is also working on completing the Maliki Fiqh curriculum.

Abdul Muhaymin rotates between living in Ghana with his family, Des Moines, IA, and Savannah, GA, his hometown.

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