Dr. Yasir Qadhi was born in Houston, Texas and completed his primary and secondary education in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He graduated with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston, after which he was accepted as a student at the Islamic University of Madinah.
After completing a diploma in Arabic, he graduated with a B.A. from the College of Hadith and Islamic Sciences. Thereafter, he completed an M.A. in Islamic Theology from the College of Dawah after which he returned to America and completed his Doctorate in Religious Studies from Yale University.
Currently, he is the Dean of The Islamic Seminary of America, the Resident Scholar of the Memphis Islamic Centre and a Professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN.
