Haifaa Younis

Haifaa Younis is an American board-certified obstetrician-gynaecologist of Iraqi roots, and the founder and chairman of Jannah Institute, an educational nonprofit based in Irvine, California. ¹ She has no Wikipedia article and no Wikidata item, and no source publishes a birth date for her, so this record gives none. ¹

She graduated from the Mecca Institute of Islamic Studies and from Al-Huda Qur'an Memorization School in Jeddah, memorised the Qur'an, and her biography reports that she holds an ijaza in the Hafs 'an 'Asim reading. ¹

She is a resident scholar at the Islamic Center of Irvine (ICOI), where she teaches Qur'an, tafsir and tazkiyah; her programmes include the "Year of Knowledge", and she is profiled in The Muslim 500. ¹

She founded Jannah Institute in 2013 as an educational nonprofit in Irvine offering courses in Qur'an, tafsir and tazkiyah, addressed especially to women. ¹ Her lectures and courses appear on the institute's YouTube channel, @jannahinstitute, which had about 974,000 subscribers in October 2026, a dated platform figure that changes constantly; the channel's video descriptions link the institute's website and her official accounts. ²

This section reports what the sources attribute to her; the museum adopts no verdict.

The sources describe her teaching as Qur'an-and-Sunna teaching centred on tazkiyah and women's spiritual formation; this pass found no published criticism of her and no contested positions in the sources consulted, and nothing beyond them is claimed. ^{1 2}

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