Suhaib Webb

Suhaib Webb was born in Oklahoma in the United States on 29 June 1972 as William Webb, into a Christian family.¹² Webb converted to Islam in 1992, in his early youth.¹ He holds a degree in Islamic law from al-Azhar University in Cairo, served as imam of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, and later worked as a resident scholar at New York University's Islamic Center.¹³ Webb founded an online institute for teaching the Islamic sciences, known as the Suhaib Webb Institute of Sacred Studies.¹

Webb grew up in Oklahoma and received his early education there before his conversion.¹ After converting in 1992 he turned to the Islamic sciences, studying under a Senegalese sheikh in Oklahoma before travelling to Cairo, where he earned his degree in Islamic law from al-Azhar.¹³ Webb served as imam of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, one of the largest Islamic centres in New England, and became one of the most prominent young imams in America.¹³ He later moved to New York, where he worked as a resident scholar and preacher at NYU's Islamic Center.¹

Webb has delivered hundreds of lectures and lessons addressed to young Muslims in America, and his audio and video recordings circulate widely.¹⁴ His best-known project is the Suhaib Webb Institute of Sacred Studies, an online platform teaching the Islamic sciences to students in the West.¹ His lessons treat questions of identity, integration and the experience of new Muslims in Western societies, in a register close to his audience.¹

This section sets out different positions as reported in the sources. It is not a verdict by the museum. The sources present Webb as a preacher who addresses the American context directly, known for stated positions on questions facing Muslims in the West.¹ None of the sources consulted names a legal school for Webb himself: the Arabic article's infobox gives only the generic word "Islam", and Wikidata lists only the value Islam, so his school is recorded in the museum's data as unknown.³²

• Suhaib Webb — English Wikipedia¹
• Suhaib Webb — Arabic Wikipedia³
• Suhaib Webb — Urdu Wikipedia⁴
• Suhaib Webb — Wikidata Q4119332²