Faraz Rabbani

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Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, is a scholar and researcher of Islamic law and translator of several Arabic works to the English language. A student and teacher of the Hanafi school of Islamic law, Rabbani is of Pakistani-Canadian background, graduating from the University of Toronto with a degree in Commerce and Economics. After this, Rabbani turned to Islamic law, and went to Damascus, studying Islamic jurisprudence extensively with a group of the most renowned scholars in the Islamic sciences. In Damascus, he studied Arabic, Aqida, Mantiq, Hanafi Fiqh, Shafi'I Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh, and Hadith with a number of scholars including Allama Shaykh Adib Kallas, Allama Shaykh Abd al-Razzaq al-Halabi, Shaykh Muhammad Jumuah, Shaykh Abd al-Rahman Kharsa, Shaykh Abd al-Haleem Abu Sha`r, Shaykh Mu'min al-Annan, and Shaykh Hassan al-Hindi.

Moving to Amman in the summer of 2000, Rabbani continued his study, research, teaching, and translation in Hayy al-Kharabsheh, close to the Zawiya of his spiritual guide and mentor, Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller until the end of 2006. At the behest of Shaykh Nuh Keller, he applied to and was accepted to Darul Uloom Karachi, to engage advanced legal training under the likes of Mufti Taqi Usmani, Mufti Rafi Usmani, Mufti Mahmud Ashraf Usmani, and other leading Hanafi jurists.

Shaykh Faraz Rabbani started the online Hanafi Fiqh Forum, towards the end of 2001, a Question-and-Answer advice platform serving the Sunni community. In 2003, on the counsel of a number of Islamic scholars, including Shaykh Nuh Keller, he helped estabilish SunniPath, an online academy of traditional Islamic knowledge, where he answers questions and teaches online through the SunniPath Academy.

He also runs an active blog, Seeker's Digest, which deals not only with religious topics but also with technology, education, English, health, and much more. He is a columnist for Islamica Magazine, one of the leading Islamic magazines in English.

Rabbani has also translated several Arabic works to the English language, including Sufism and Good Character (published by White Thread Press), and the December 2004 work The Absolute Essentials of Islam: A Basic Hanafi Primer on Faith, Prayer, and the Path to Salvation. He currently resides in Amman, where he teaches Islamic law and jurisprudence, both locally and through the SunniPath Academy.