Zaytuna - Berkley California- An Aspirant Visit-2015-

Zaytuna College (formerly known as Zaytuna Institute) is a non-profit, educational institution located in Berkeley, California, United States. Zaytuna College is America's first Muslim liberal arts college founded in 2008 by Hamza Yusuf, Zaid Shakir and Hatem Bazian. Prior to becoming a college, Zaytuna was an institute, founded in 1996 by Hamza Yusuf, Zaid Shakir, and Hesham Alalusi. Zaytuna College seeks to incorporate the importance of the liberal arts and humanities into a traditional Islamic education curriculum. In the academic year 2012-2013, Zaytuna College has a student body of thirty students, most of whom live on campus.

Majors at Zaytuna College include Arabic and Islamic Studies, with courses ranging from Arabic grammar and Islamic jurisprudence, to American history and literature. Zaytuna College also conducts an 8-week summer Arabic intensive.

Zaytuna College was conceived from the imperative to establish centers of Islamic learning for the Muslim-American community in the West which are equipped to interpret Islamic scriptures authoritatively and educate Western students in light of the cultural context in which they live.Zaytuna College has been recognized as an institution that has the ability to bridge the divide between America and the Muslim world.

The faculty of Zaytuna College consists of scholars of Arabic, Islamic Studies and Liberal Arts. The institution derives its name from the Arabic word Zaytuna, which means olive tree. Biblical and Qur'anic scholars deem the olive a source of great benefit and worth.

reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaytuna_College

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