Shaykh Abdulrahman Cherri
Shaykh Abdulrahman Cherri was born in Dayton, Ohio. He earned his bachelor’s degree in liberal arts with a concentration in economics from the University of Michigan. In 2015, he traveled to the Islamic Seminary in Qom to pursue advanced religious studies. His academic focus has encompassed a wide range of traditional Islamic sciences, including jurisprudence, legal theory (usul al-fiqh), theology (kalam), philosophy, mysticism (‘irfan), Qur’anic exegesis (tafsir), manuscript editing, and the sciences of hadith and narrators (ʿilm al-rijāl and ʿilm al-ḥadīth). His hawza studies remain ongoing.
Shaykh Cherri is actively engaged in religious education and community service, delivering lectures, workshops, and participating in academic and community conferences across the United States. He has taught courses in Islamic theology, logic, jurisprudence, and spirituality, and currently serves as a faculty member at Mufid Seminary.
In addition, he is the Director of the Al-Murtada Educational Program at I.M.A.M., a platform dedicated to providing accessible and high-quality Islamic education to Muslims in the West. The program is designed to transmit traditional Islamic knowledge in a way that is rooted in scholarship and relevant to contemporary challenges, helping students develop strong religious, moral, and ethical foundations.
Shaykh Cherri is also pursuing his Ph.D. in Islamic Theology at the University of Münster in Germany.