Hamza Yusuf
{{Short description|American Islamic scholar (born 1958)}}
{{distinguish|text=the Scottish politician Humza Yousaf}}
{{Infobox religious biography
| name = Hamza Yusuf
| image = Hamza Yusuf (2022).jpg
| caption = Yusuf in 2022
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1958}}
| birth_name = Mark Hanson
| birth_place = Walla Walla, Washington, U.S.
| religion = Islam
| denomination = Sunni
| jurisprudence = Maliki"Prominent Malikis in the American milieu include the founder of the Zaytuna Institute Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson". Jocelyne Cesari, Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States, p 23.
| creed = Ash'ari
| occupation = Islamic scholar, Author
| title = Shaykh
| main_interests = Tasawwuf, Aqida, Fiqh, Islamic Eschatology
| movement = Islamic neo-traditionalism
| education = {{plainlist|
- Graduate Theological Union {{smaller|(PhD)}}
- San Jose State University {{smaller|(BA)}}{{cite book |last1=Cesari |first1=Jocelyne |title=When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States |url=https://archive.org/details/whenislamdemocra00cesa |url-access=limited | publisher=Pelgrave MacMillan | date=2004 |isbn=1403978565 |page=[https://archive.org/details/whenislamdemocra00cesa/page/n160 150]}}
- University of Ez-Zitouna
- Imperial Valley College {{smaller|(AS}}, {{smaller|AA)}}
- United Arab Emirates University
}}
| website = {{url|sandala.org}}
}}
Hamza Yusuf (born Mark Hanson; 1958){{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhV791UyT0o&t=121 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/WhV791UyT0o| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=إضاءات :. حمزة يوسف|website=youtube.com|date=5 October 2011 }}{{cbignore}} is an American Islamic scholar, neo-traditionalist,{{Cite book|last=al-Azami|first=U.|url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:13f8f597-5b0f-4f30-b083-d10220e4fcad|title=Neo-traditionalist Sufis and Arab politics: a preliminary mapping of the transnational networks of counter-revolutionary scholars after the Arab revolutions|date=2019-09-26|publisher=C.Hurst & Co. Ltd|isbn=978-1-78738-134-6}}{{Cite thesis|title=Neo-traditionalism in the West: navigating modernity, tradition, and politics|url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dc7aec3c-757e-4004-a721-db2d9ee3ba13|publisher=University of Oxford|date=2019|degree=PhD|first=Walaa|last=Quisay}}Multiple sources :
- {{cite book |last1=Lumbard | first1=Joseph E. B. | title=Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition: Essays by Western Muslim Scholars|url=https://archive.org/details/islamfundamental00lumb |url-access=limited | year=2009|publisher=World Wisdom, Inc|page=[https://archive.org/details/islamfundamental00lumb/page/n68 40]|isbn=978-1933316666}}
- {{cite book |last=Al-Rasheed | first=M.|author-link=Madawi al-Rasheed | title=Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf| year=2005|publisher=Psychology Press|page=175|isbn=1134323999}}
- {{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1591024.stm|title=Islam 'hijacked' by terror|work=BBC |access-date=December 19, 2014 | location=London|date=October 11, 2001}}
- {{cite news |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/rizkhan/2007/06/200852519340511165.html|title=Sheikh Hamza Yusuf The American Islamic scholar discusses building bridges between Islam and the west.|work=al-Jazeera |access-date=December 19, 2014 |first=Riz|last=Khan|date=June 17, 2007}} and co-founder of Zaytuna College.{{cite book |last1=E. Curtis |first1=Edward |title=The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States | publisher=Columbia University Press |date=2009 |isbn=978-0231139571 |page=405}}{{cite book |last1=Grewal |first1=Zareena |title=Islam Is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority | publisher=New York University Press |date=2014 |isbn=978-1479800568 |page=377}} He is a proponent of classical learning in Islam and has promoted Islamic sciences and classical teaching methodologies throughout the world.{{cite book |last1=Cesari |first1=Jocelyne |title=Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States |publisher=Greenwood Press |date=2007 |isbn=978-0313336256 |page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofis0000unse/page/643 643] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofis0000unse/page/643 }}
He is an advisor to both the Center for Islamic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and the Islamic Studies programme at Stanford University.{{cite web|url=http://gtu.edu/centersandaffiliates/islamicstudies/carnegie/biographies#hamza|title=Carnegie Workshop Biographies|date=10 May 2012}}{{Cite web |last=Affairs |first=Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World |title=Hamza Yusuf |url=https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/people/hamza-yusuf |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=berkleycenter.georgetown.edu |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Sheikh Hamza Yusuf Hanson |url=https://rfp.org/leadership_member/sheikh-hamza-yusuf-hanson/ |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=Religions for Peace |date=13 October 2020 |language=en-US}} In addition, he serves as vice-president for the Global Center for Guidance and Renewal, which was founded and is currently presided over by Abdallah bin Bayyah.{{cite web|url=http://binbayyah.net/english/2012/06/19/introducing-global-center-for-renewal-and-guidance/|title=Introducing global center for renewal and guidance « Bin Bayyah|website=binbayyah.net|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112171647/http://binbayyah.net/english/2012/06/19/introducing-global-center-for-renewal-and-guidance/|archive-date=2012-11-12}}{{cite news|url=http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2008082515395|title=Introducing global center for renewal and guidance|work=Saudi Gazette|access-date=December 19, 2014|first=Mozammel|last=Haque|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219220136/http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2008082515395|archive-date=December 19, 2014}} He also serves as vice-president of the United Arab Emirates-based Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, where bin Bayyah also serves as president.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/06/24/the-orlando-shooter-googled-my-name-i-wish-he-had-reached-out-to-me/|title=Opinion {{!}} The Orlando shooter Googled my name. I wish he had reached out to me.|last=Yusuf|first=Hamza|date=2016-06-24|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=2018-01-20|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}} The Forum has attracted huge controversy for its close ties to the UAE government, Yusuf's personal support for authoritarian leaders since the Arab Spring, and Yusuf's support for the Abraham Accords between Israel and the UAE.{{Cite journal |last=Sarant |first=Louise |date=2015-07-22 |title=UAE's Masdar launches first models to predict Emirates' climate evolution |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmiddleeast.2015.121 |journal=Nature Middle East |doi=10.1038/nmiddleeast.2015.121 |issn=2042-6046|url-access=subscription }}{{Citation |last=Parikh |first=Crystal |title=Epilogue: The Traitors in Our Midst |date=2009-04-13 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fso/9780823230426.003.0006 |work=An Ethics of Betrayal |pages=160–172 |access-date=2023-03-14 |publisher=Fordham University Press|doi=10.5422/fso/9780823230426.003.0006 |isbn=9780823230426 |s2cid=183278363 |url-access=subscription }}{{Cite web |title=Influential Muslim scholar Hamza Yusuf criticised for backing UAE-Israel deal |url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-israel-muslim-scholar-hamza-yusuf |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=Middle East Eye |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=AL-AZAMI |first=USAAMA |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1304817590 |title=ISLAM AND THE ARAB REVOLUTIONS : the ulama between democracy and autocracy. |date=2022 |publisher=C HURST & CO PUB LTD |isbn=978-1-78738-822-2 |location=[S.l.] |oclc=1304817590}}
Yusuf has been listed in the top 50 of The 500 Most Influential Muslims publication.{{Cite web|url=https://www.themuslim500.com/profiles/hamza-yusuf-hanson/|title=Hamza Yusuf Hanson|website=The Muslim 500|date=27 May 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-13}} His detractors, however, have widely criticised him for his stance on race, politics, the Syrian revolution, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.{{Cite web|url=https://www.themuslim500.com/profiles/sheikh-hamza-yusuf-hanson/|title=Sheikh Hamza Yusuf Hanson|website=The Muslim 500|date=27 May 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-28}}{{Cite web|url=https://themuslimvibe.com/muslim-current-affairs-news/the-controversy-of-hamza-yusuf-being-appointed-human-rights-adviser-to-the-trump-administration|title=The controversy of Hamza Yusuf being appointed Human Rights Adviser to the Trump administration - TMV|last=Bokth|first=Noshin|date=2019-07-19|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-09-28}}{{Citation|title=Hamza Yusuf under fire for comments about the Syrian revolution| date=11 September 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x96kvfDNjhs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/x96kvfDNjhs| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2019-09-28}}{{cbignore}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/time-muslim-americans-condemn-hamza-yusuf-190715130254222.html|title=It's time for Muslim Americans to condemn Hamza Yusuf|last=Hilal|first=Maha|website=aljazeera.com|access-date=2019-09-28}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/hamza-yusuf-and-struggle-soul-western-islam|title=Hamza Yusuf and the struggle for the soul of western Islam|website=Middle East Eye|language=en|access-date=2019-09-28}}{{Cite web|url=https://5pillarsuk.com/2016/12/25/hamza-yusuf-stokes-controversy-with-comments-about-black-lives-matter-and-political-islam/|title=Hamza Yusuf stokes controversy with comments about Black Lives Matter and political Islam|last=5Pillars|date=2016-12-25|website=5Pillars|access-date=2019-09-28}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/influential-muslim-scholar-criticised-calling-uae-tolerant-country|title=Influential Muslim scholar criticised for calling the UAE a 'tolerant country'|website=Middle East Eye|language=en|access-date=2019-09-28}}{{Cite web |last=al-Azami |first=Dr Usaama |date=2019-09-15 |title=Shaykh Hamza Yusuf And The Question of Rebellion In The Islamic Tradition |url=https://muslimmatters.org/2019/09/15/shaykh-hamza-yusuf-and-the-question-of-rebellion-in-the-islamic-tradition/ |access-date=2023-04-29 |website=MuslimMatters.org |language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231227-american-islamic-scholar-hamza-yusuf-interrupted-at-canada-conference-over-gaza-remarks/amp/|title=American Islamic scholar Hamza Yusuf interrupted at Canada conference over Gaza remarks – Middle East Monitor}}
Early life and education
Yusuf was born as Mark Hanson in Walla Walla, Washington to two academics working at Whitman College, and was raised in northern California. He grew up as a practicing Irish Catholic Christian and attended prep schools on both the East and West coasts. In 1977, after a near-death experience in a car accident and reading the Qur'an, he converted to Islam.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/08/religion.uk | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Jack | last=O'Sullivan | title=If you hate the west, emigrate to a Muslim country | date=October 7, 2001}} Yusuf has Irish, Scottish and Greek ancestry.{{cite news |last=O'Sullivan |first=Jack |date=October 7, 2001 |title=If you hate the west, emigrate to a Muslim country |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/08/religion.uk |access-date=November 22, 2011 |work=The Guardian |location=London}}
After being impressed by a young couple from Saudi Arabia who were followers of Abdalqadir as-Sufi{{Cite book|url=https://www.scribd.com/book/351486485/Secret-Practices-of-the-Sufi-Freemasons-The-Islamic-Teachings-at-the-Heart-of-Alchemy|title=Read Secret Practices of the Sufi Freemasons Online by Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff {{!}} Books|language=en}}—a Scottish convert to Islam and leader of the Darqawa Sufi order and the Murabitun World Movement—Yusuf moved to Norwich, England to study directly under as-Sufi.Grewal, Zareena [https://books.google.com/books?id=K1lNBQAAQBAJ&q=AlQadir&pg=PA161 Islam Is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority] p 160-171Ukeles, Raquel [http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=4041 The Evolving Muslim Community in America: The Impact of 9/11] p 101 In 1979, Yusuf moved to Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates where he spent the next four years studying Sharia sciences at the Islamic Studies Institute of the United Arab Emirates University,{{Cite web |last=Tariq |first=Aisha |title=From student to honoured guest |url=https://www.khaleejtimes.com/article/from-student-to-honoured-guest |access-date=2023-02-09 |website=Khaleej Times |language=en}} more often on a one-on-one basis with Islamic scholars. Yusuf became fluent in the Arabic language and also learned Qur'anic recitation (tajwid), rhetoric, poetry, law (fiqha) and theology (aqidah) among other classical Islamic disciplines.
In 1984, Yusuf formally disassociated himself from as-Sufi's teachings and moved in a different intellectual direction, having been influenced by a number of Mauritanian scholars residing in the Emirates. He moved to North Africa in 1984 and studied in Algeria and Morocco, as well as Spain and Mauritania.{{cite book |last1=Grewal |first1=Zareena |title=Islam Is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority | publisher=New York University Press |date=2014 |isbn=978-1479800568 |page=161}} In Mauritania he developed his most lasting and powerful relationship with Islamic scholar Sidi Muhammad Ould Fahfu al-Massumi, known as Murabit al-Hajj.
In 2020, Yusuf completed his Ph.D. at the Graduate Theological Union. His dissertation was titled, "The Normative Islamic Tradition in North and West Africa: A Case Study of Transmission of Authority and Distillation of Knowledge in Ibn Ashir’s Al-Murshid al-Mu’in (The Helpful Guide)." Yusuf previously earned an associate degree in nursing from Imperial Valley College and a bachelor's degree in religious studies from San José State University.{{Cite web |title=Hamza Yusuf |url=http://zaytuna.edu/faculty-details/Hamza-Yusuf |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=zaytuna.edu |language=en}}
Scholarly career
=Zaytuna College=
He and other colleagues founded the Zaytuna Institute in Berkeley, California, United States, in 1996, dedicated to the revival of traditional study methods and the sciences of Islam.Daniel Brumberg, Dina Shehata, Conflict, Identity, and Reform in the Muslim World: Challenges for U.S Engagement, p 367 He was joined by Zaid Shakir and Hatem Bazian in establishing what was then Zaytuna Institute. In fall 2010, it opened its doors as Zaytuna College, a four-year Muslim liberal arts college, the first of its kind in the United States.{{cite magazine |last=Romig |first=Rollo |date=May 20, 2013 |title=Where Islam Meets America |url=http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/where-islam-meets-america |access-date=December 19, 2014 |magazine=New Yorker}} It incorporates Yusuf's vision of combining the classical liberal arts—based in the trivium and quadrivium—with rigorous training in traditional Islamic disciplines. It aims to "educate and prepare morally committed professional, intellectual, and spiritual leaders".{{cite web|title=Zaytuna College|url=http://www.zaytunacollege.org/about/our_mission/|website=zaytunacollege.org|access-date=2017-10-26|archive-date=2014-04-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410102617/http://www.zaytunacollege.org/about/our_mission/|url-status=dead}} Zaytuna College became the first accredited Muslim campus in the United States after it received approval from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-muslim-college-accreditated-20150311-story.html|title=Muslim college gains accreditation|work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=March 12, 2015 |first=Jason |last=Song|date=March 11, 2015}}{{cite news |url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/852075/us-gets-its-first-accredited-muslim-college/|title=US gets its first accredited Muslim college
|work=The Express Tribune|access-date=March 12, 2015 |date=March 12, 2015}} Yusuf stated that "We hope, God willing, that there will be more such Muslim colleges and universities to come".
= Interfaith =
Yusuf participates in the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies hosted by the UAE. He praised the UAE for its increasing tolerance and its adoption of multi-faith initiatives and plans to build a multi-faith centre in Abu Dhabi.{{Cite web |date=6 December 2019 |title=Plans for multi-faith centre in Abu Dhabi presented to the UN |url=https://www.thenational.ae/uae/plans-for-multi-faith-centre-in-abu-dhabi-presented-to-the-un-1.947701 |access-date=2020-04-26 |website=The National |language=en}}
Views and influence
Jordan's Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre currently places him 36th on its list of the top 500 most influential Muslims in the world.{{cite web|url=http://themuslim500.com/downloads/151001-TheMuslim500-2016v009(23%7c48)-Web-Low.pdf|title=The 2016 Edition is Here!|access-date=2017-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126065025/http://themuslim500.com/downloads/151001-TheMuslim500-2016v009(23%7C48)-Web-Low.pdf|archive-date=2016-01-26|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|title=The 500 Most Influential Muslims|last=Esposito|first=J.|author-link=John Esposito|publisher=Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre|year=2009|isbn=978-9957-428-37-2|page=86}} In its 2016 edition, Yusuf is described "as one of the foremost authorities on Islam outside of the Muslim world" by The 500 Most Influential Muslims, edited by John Esposito and Ibrahim Kalin. Additionally, Journalist Graeme Wood has referred to Yusuf "one the two most prominent Muslim scholars in the United States today".{{cite book |last1=Wood |first1=Graeme |title=The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State |date=2016 |publisher=Random House |isbn=9780812988765 |page=214 |chapter=The War of the End of Time |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bPoOCwAAQBAJ&q=al-Bahrumi&pg=PT132}}
Yusuf has taken a stance against religious justifications for terrorist attacks.{{cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Charles L. |last2=Numbers |first2=Ronald L. |title=Gods in America: Religious Pluralism in the United States | publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2013 |isbn=978-0199931927 |page=186}} He described the 9/11 attacks as "an act of mass murder, pure and simple". Condemning the attacks, he also stated that "Islam was hijacked ... on that plane as an innocent victim."{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/08/religion.uk|title=If you hate the west, emigrate to a Muslim country|last=O'Sullivan|first=Jack|date=2001-10-08|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-09-28|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}
Yusuf is one of the signatories{{cite web |title=Signatories - A Common Word Between Us and You |url=http://www.acommonword.com/signatories/ |website=acommonword.com}} of A Common Word Between Us and You, an open letter by Islamic scholars to Christian leaders calling for peace and understanding. Yusuf was also one of the signatories of an open letter to former ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that sought to refute the principles promoted by the terrorist organization.{{Cite tweet|number=514931398357299201|user=zaytunacollege|title=A Letter responding to #ISIS leader al-Baghdadi and signed by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf as well as 125 Sunni scholars... http://fb.me/6M9gDKUy1|date=2014-09-24|access-date=2020-01-16|language=en|last=College|first=Zaytuna|website=@zaytunacollege}}{{non-primary source needed|date=October 2023}}
Hamza Yusuf has been involved in controversies in recent years on issues of race, politics, and the Arab revolutions, including as a result of his support for the Abraham Accords and UAE government, and for "positing blame on the Palestinians for their suffering".
= Comments on the Syrian Revolution =
In 2019, in reference to Arab Spring protests against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Yusuf criticized the Syrian Revolution, stating that "If you humiliate a ruler, God will humiliate you." Although some viewed these comments as supportive of the Syrian regime, this has been rejected by Yusuf, who made a statement of response.{{Cite web|url=http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamza-yusuf-issues-apology-hurting-feelings-over-syria-comments|title=Hamza Yusuf issues apology for 'hurting feelings' with Syria comments|website=Middle East Eye|language=en|access-date=2019-09-28}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2019/9/10/outrage-as-hamza-yusuf-releases-video-mocking-syrian-refugees|title=Outrage as Hamza Yusuf releases video mocking Syrian refugees|last=Arab|first=The New|website=alaraby|date=10 September 2019 |language=en|access-date=2019-09-28}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcYNdmaA-Oo|title=Don't Curse the People of Syria|last=Yusuf|first=Hamza|website=Youtube|date=13 September 2019 }}
= 2016 Black Lives Matter comments =
In December 2016, Yusuf made comments that were perceived as critical of the tactics employed by the Black Lives Matter movement. He argued that, "The United States is probably, in terms of its laws, one of the least racist societies in the world." He also stated that, “We have between 15,000 and 18,000 homicides per year. Fifty percent are black-on-black crime, literally." He added, "There are twice as many whites that have been shot by police, but nobody ever shows those videos.”{{Cite web |last=Green |first=Emma |date=2017-03-11 |title=Muslim Americans Are United by Trump—and Divided by Race |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/muslim-americans-race/519282/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}} Yusuf was criticized for these comments, including on social media. Zaid Shakir, co-founder of Zaytuna College, defended Yusuf, writing that "I can say with absolute confidence that there is not a racist bone in Shaykh Hamza’s body. A racist is someone who believes in the superiority of one race over another. Shaykh Hamza, like any serious Muslim, totally rejects that idea."{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/imamzaidshakir/posts/10154205928883359 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/17621258358/10154205928883359 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |url-access=limited|title=Imam Zaid Shakir|website=facebook.com|language=en|access-date=2020-04-26}}{{cbignore}}
Publications
= Poems =
{{bulleted list |Spring's Gift|Be Like Ahmed, a poem dedicated to the Prophet Mohammed, recited at the ceremony of the Prophet's birthday on the 12th of Rabi' al-Awwal (9th of October 2022).}}
See also
References
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