Dr. Imran Qureshi, PhD
Momintum
Founder of Momintum and author of Purpose & Decree. He works with schools and communities across North America on moving Islamic education from rote instruction to tarbiyah.
I have spent two decades working with young Muslims across North America — in classrooms and masājid, but as often on a trail, at a camp, or around a fire. The setting changes what a young person is willing to say, and what they are willing to say is where teaching starts.
My doctoral research, Empowering Young Muslims: An Educational Framework Based on Usul al-Din for Confronting 21st-Century Challenges, asked why students who can recite a syllabus back to you still struggle to act on it. The gap is not information. It is the distance between taʿlīm, instruction, and tarbiyah, formation — and most curricula are built to close the first and assume the second.
So my work with schools is usually about the assumption. What does a lesson look like if conviction, not recall, is the outcome? What has to change in how a teacher stands in front of a class, how a text is opened, how a question is allowed to stay open? I consult on curriculum design, prophetic pedagogy and leadership, and I train the educators who have to deliver it on a Monday morning.
My students tell me I am a pyromaniac of purpose. I will take that. The aim is passion over fear, responsibility over deniability, and intellectual humility over the comfort of certainty.
