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Shaykh Yasir Fahmy was born and raised in northern New Jersey and completed a BS from Rutgers University and worked for three years in corporate America. During his seven years of studying in the Middle East, he completed a degree from the prestigious Al-Azhar University, while simultaneously studying with other numerous scholars. Shaykh Yasir received numerous ‘ijazaat in the subjects of fiqh, hadith, aqeeda, usul al-fiqh, seerah, tazkiyyah, mantiq, Arabic grammar, sarf (morphology) and balagha (rhetoric). In 2013, he became the first American Azhari to teach in the renowned Al-Azhar Mosque.