Riad Ouarzazi

Riad Ouarzazi is a Moroccan-born dawah speaker and teacher based in Toronto, Canada. Born in Casablanca, he took Islamic education degrees at Abdullah University there and moved to the United States in 1988, where he pursued a bachelor's in international management and a master's in computer information systems; he moved to Canada in 2001 and became active in Islamic work, lecturing and giving Friday sermons in the mosques of the Greater Toronto Area. ¹

A speaker profile records more than thirty years of teaching and leadership: he is a member of the Canadian Council of Imams, serves as Director of Religious Affairs at ICNA Canada, has taught with AlMaghrib Institute, and has lectured in the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway, Malaysia and South Africa. The same profile dates his degree in Islamic Sharia'a and Arabic literature from Abdullah University, Casablanca, to 1987, and his Golden Gate University degrees to 1994 and 1996. ² The Muslim Central biography adds that he studied Aqeedah under Waleed Basyouni and Fiqh under Waleed Idrees. ¹ His recorded lectures circulate as a Muslim Central podcast running since 2012. ¹

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