Dr. Omar Qureshi

 is a Scholar of Educational Philosophy, Ethics, Theology, and Islamic Law

Dr. Qureshi served as Lecturer in Western and Islamic Philosophy and Head of the Diploma in Contextual Islamic Studies & Leadership at Cambridge Muslim College. His academic training began with a BA in Microbiology and M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction (Science Education) from the University of Missouri-Columbia, followed by a Ph.D. in Cultural and Educational Policy Studies from Loyola University Chicago (2016), where his dissertation explored educational institutional identity through “Badr al-Dīn Ibn Jamāʿah and the Highest Good of Islamic Education.”

Prior to Cambridge, he held positions as Provost and Assistant Professor of Liberal and Islamic Studies at Zaytuna College, and earlier served for seven years as Principal and Dean of Academics at a Chicago-area parochial school.

In Islamic scholarship, Dr. Qureshi specialized across multiple disciplines including Shāfiʿī jurisprudence, Islamic philosophy, Kalām theology, uṣūl al-fiqh (legal theory), Qurʾānic exegesis, Ḥadīth studies, Prophetic biography, and Islamic history, with additional training in classical logic.