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Umar Faruq Abd-Allah
American Islamic scholar (born )
For the second caliph of Islam, see Omar.
Umar Faruq Abd-Allah (born Wymann-Landgraf; born ) is an American Islamic theologian, author, spiritual guide, and educator.[1]
Biography
Umar Faruq Abd-Allah was born in in Columbus, Nebraska to a Protestant family.
He was raised in Athens, Georgia, where both of his parents worked as tutors at the University of Georgia.[2] He received his PhD on the origins of Islamic law from the University of Chicago.[1] Abd-Allah began his career as a teacher of Arabic and Islamic Studies and taught at different institutions in the United States and Canada.
He left America in to teach Arabic in Spain. Two years later, he was appointed to King Abdul-Aziz University's Department of Islamic Studies in Jeddah, where he conducted courses on Islamic studies and comparative religion for many years.
He studied under numerous traditional scholars during his sta