Dr. Omar Qureshi

Dr. Omar Qureshi serves as a faculty member at the Qalam Seminary.

Dr. Omar Qureshi is an educator and student of the Islamic Sciences. He has previously held senior academic roles at Zaytuna College—where he served as Provost and Assistant Professor of Liberal and Islamic Studies—and at Cambridge Muslim College, where he lectured in Western and Islamic Philosophy and led the Diploma in Contextual Islamic Studies and Leadership. He currently serves as Director of Integrated Curriculum at Yaqeen Institute.

Dr. Omar earned his Ph.D. in Cultural and Educational Policy Studies (Philosophy of Education) from Loyola University Chicago. His dissertation, Badr al-Dīn Ibn Jamāʿah and the Highest Good of Islamic Education, examined institutional identity and articulates a vision of Islamic education centered on cultivating the adab-possessing soul. He also holds a B.A. in Microbiology and an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction (Science Education) from the University of Missouri, Columbia.Alongside his academic credentials, Dr. Omar has studied the Islamic sciences traditionally in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Syria, with extensive training in fields including Shāfiʿī fiqh, kalām, logic, usūl al-fiqh, Qur’ānic studies, ḥadīth nomenclature, sīrah, and Islamic history.