Dr. Ahmed Khater was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in legal studies, and attained a second B.A. from Al-Azhar University in Islamic sciences and Arabic language. He received an M.A. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley with a specialization in Islamic law and legal theory, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union specializing in Islamic law and legal theory. He has received ijazat (licenses) in various Islamic sciences, including ones to teach and narrate the Hanbali school of law. He is an assistant professor of Islamic studies at the Center for Islamic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. He served for many years as an adjunct faculty member specializing in Islamic law and legal theory at the Center for Islamic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, and was a visiting scholar there. He is an adjunct associate professor of Islamic studies at Saint Mary’s College in California. He works with the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America answering legal questions for their fatwa (legal edict) services, and as an Islamic law consultant, Resident Fatwa Committee secretary, and translator/editor and lecturer. He teaches the traditional Islamic sciences at Zidni Institute, and is the resident scholar of Masjid Annur Islamic Center in California.
He previously was: an assistant professor of Islamic studies at Guidance College, the former dean of the Department of Islamic Studies there, and the head of undergraduate Islamic studies. He was an assistant professor of Islamic law and the dean of the English Faculty of Shariah at the Islamic University of Minnesota. He was a faculty member teaching Islamic law and a member of the academic committee at Mishkah University. He also was a lecturer of Arabic language at the University of California, Berkeley. He previously worked with Al-Azhar University’s English Department of Islamic Studies to edit books and articles for the scholars of Al-Azhar. He was a senior fellow with Yaqeen Institute.
