Nosheen Khan is of Pakistani descent and currently live in Sacramento, CA. She volunteers at Tarbiya Institute and a couple of Islamic organizations in Sacramento in various capacities, including as a community chaplain. She aspires to keep growing intellectually and spiritually while challenging myself and helping me develop a grounded and well-established scholarship.“I appreciate the...Read More

On Saturday, January 13, 2024, TISA presented at the 2024 Association of Muslim Chaplains Members conference which took place virtually on Hopin. The theme of the conference this year was Integrating Faith and Practice and attended by about 100 chaplains and pastoral caregivers from across the nation.  The program consisted of a wide array of...Read More

The Dialogue of Abrahamic Faiths Course, hosted by the Washington Theological Consortium and the International Institute of Islamic Thought at United Lutheran Seminary in Philadelphia, was an enriching learning experience. As a skeptic of interfaith and its goals, this course allowed me to apply the critical thinking and exercises in empathy that I learned at...Read More

Unpacking race and racism in the Muslim American Community. An article by Dr. Jimmy Jones (Exec. Vice President, TISA).Read More

TISA Academic Dean Sh. Dr. Yasir Qadhi announced that TISA would hold its first-ever commencement ceremony in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on June 1, 2024. He shared, “We are extremely proud of the accomplishments of our students who have, like all of us, had to cope with the COVID pandemic while studying at TISA. This group of students...Read More

1. EXPERIENCE The top three administrators at TISA collectively possess extensive educational leadership experience totaling more than 80 years. Their cumulative expertise and tenure in the field of education contribute significantly to the institution’s comprehensive leadership, knowledge, community connections and resources. Building an institution that trains leaders takes leaders and that is what our administrators...Read More

Omar M. Al-Ani resides in Memphis, TN where he is the youth director at Masjid al-Rahman and an Islamic Studies teacher at Pleasant View Islamic School. He joined the very first classes at TISA and maintained a 3.74 GPA while pursuing a Masters in Islamic Studies while continuing to work full-time. TISA is proud of...Read More

Professor of Comparative Religion and Culture Dr. Jimmy Jones was tapped by the Washington (DC) Theological Consortium to Deliver the Prestigious Annual Muslim-Christian Dialogue Dr Taha Al Alwani Lecture on the topic – “The Rise of Islamic Education for Leaders and the Contribution to Theological Education in the U.S.” on March 16 at HBCU Howard...Read More

After the Year of Sorrow and the trial of Ta’if, Allah blessed the Prophet PBUH with a great miracle. Allah SWT has promised that He’s never going to test or try us except that there will always be ease along with and after that trial [Quran, 94:5-6]. And Allah SWT has told us that those...Read More

This article has been jointly written by Chaplains Shazeeda Khan and AbdulMalik Negedu.“Do we call ourselves ‘Chaplains’ or find an Arabic word for a Muslim/ah Islamic equivalency within this profession?”This was one of the questions pondered by the men and women who had gathered for a workshop in a quaint lecture room on Yale University’s...Read More