Shaykh Fouad Elgohari

Senior Director of Academic Affairs; Char, Department of Islamic Studies

Fouad Elgohari is a faculty member and the Director of Research and Media at Bayan Islamic Graduate School. As a student of fifteen years in the classical Islamic sciences with a specialization in systematic theology (kalām), Fouad has served as an instructor, academic consultant, and research fellow on various international councils, institutes, and educational programs. He received a Bachelor’s degree in the Liberal Arts, and went on to pursue Islamic Studies in Egypt from numerous institutes and under the supervision of senior-scholars of Al-Azhar where he received advanced traditional licenses (‘ijāzāt khāṣṣah) to teach credal theology, Sunni legal theory, Malikī Legal Rulings, Arabic language, taṣawwuf, Ḥadith, and the Qur’anic sciences. He went on to further specialize in systematic theology (kalām) and legal theory (uṣūl). In 2018 he graduated from Claremont School of Theology with an M.A. in Islamic Studies. His current research is in post-classical (13-18th century) Islamic intellectual history, with a focus on the rational sciences (kalām, usūl, philosophy). He is currently a regular weekly instructor at The Majlis, a local initiative in Southern California founded on offering traditional learning in the American context, while developing an intentional community rooted in love and service.