Marc Manley

2/25/2024 — I was invited to participate in Kitaab Academy's Aqsa Conference were I spoke on Israeli Propaganda & Western Hypocrisy. You can listen to the talk here.

7/9/2023 — al-Ḥamdulillāh, it was a real honor and pleasure to give the keynote speech at the Salaam Islamic Center's retreat, Ikhlas: Seeking Divine Pleasure In Our Actions. You can listen below to the talk (our new Middle Ground Podcast). For more videos on the retreat click here.

I currently serve as the imam and religious director at Middle Ground. I started my path towards being an imam back in Detroit where I started my Islamic studies under the tutelage of Dr. Ali Sulaiman Ali. I subsequently spent a number of years studying the Warsh recitation of the Qur'an from a hafidh from Algeria.

Years later I found myself in Philadelphia, America's premier city for indigenous Islam, where, under the support of such teachers as Shaykh Anwar Muhaimin at Quba Masjid and Adnan Zulficar, I took the position of Muslim Chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania. From here I also developed the first Muslim chaplaincy program at Drexel University. Not long after, the Islamic Center of Inland Empire called, offering the position of Imam and Director. I left ICIE in 2015 to open Middle Ground. You can read more about what Middle Ground is there but to say the least, it's been a life-changing experiece that's still unfoldilng.

If you're looking for a bio in Arabic (ترجمة شخصية في العربية), click here.

Thanks for stopping by – M