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 mainstream 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 Shaykh Haytham Idilbi, Shaykh Abd al-Rahman Kharsa, Shaykh Abd al-Haleem Abu Sha`r, Shaykh Umar al-Sabbagh, Shaykh Jihad Brown, Shaykh Mu'min al-Annan, Shaykh Hassan al-Hindi, Sayyidi Shaykh Adib Kallas, Shaykh Muhammad Jumuah, Sh. Abd al-Razzaq al-Halabi, Shaykh Haytham, Shaykh Abd al-Haleem Abu Sha`r, and Ustadh Mahmud al-Bayruti. Moving to Amman in the summer of 2000, Rabbani has 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.
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani started the online Hanafi Fiqh Forum, towards the end of 2001, a Question-and-Answer advice platform serving the mainstream 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.
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.
