{"name":"Dr. Yasir Qadhi","slug":"dr-yasir-qadhi","bio":"Dr. Yasir Qadhi, PhD, is a resident Scholar of the Memphis Islamic Center, a professor at Rhodes College in the Department of Religious Studies, and is the Dean of Academic Affairs at AlMaghrib Institute. He graduated with a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston, and studied at the Islamic University of Madinah where he completed a BA from the College of Hadith and Islamic Sciences followed by a MA in Islamic Theology from the College of Dawah. He then returned to the United States, and completed a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. He is one of the few people who has combined a traditional Eastern Islamic seminary education with a Western academic training of the study of Islam.","short_bio":"","designation":"Guest Contributor","department":["Contributors"],"thumbnail":"https://cdn.yaqeeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Unknown-3.jpeg","url":"https://yaqeeninstitute.org/team/dr-yasir-qadhi","total_publications":1,"recent_publications":[{"title":"Human Origins - Part 1: Theological Conclusions and Empirical Limitations","slug":"human-origins-part-1-theological-conclusions-and-empirical-limitations","type":"Paper","date":"2018-08-31 16:55:48"}]}