Draft:Uthman ibn Farooq

Uthman Ibn Farooq is an American Muslim scholar and preacher.

Early life
He began practicing and studying Islam in his later teenage years.

Education
Uthman was inspired to seek Islamic knowledge abroad by ash-Shaikh Dr. ʿAwad al-Garguri. For the next ten years he continued to balance his secular and Islamic studies, earning a bachelor's degree in Information Technology, an executive MBA in technology management, while attaining traditional Ijāzāt (accreditations) in classic Islamic texts from qualified Islamic scholars, such as ash-Shaikh Dr. Yusuf Mishaʿal (Ph.D. Umm al-Qura) and ash-Shaikh Dr. Sadiq al-Manna (Ph.D. Umm al-Qura). His travels in search of Islamic knowledge took him to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the UAE.