Tamara Gray

Tamara Gray is an American Islamic scholar and educator, the founder and CEO of Rabata, a Minnesota-based nonprofit that promotes positive cultural change through creative educational experiences for Muslim women, and President of Ribat University, Rabata's higher education initiative. Rabata's YouTube channel carries her lectures and series. ^{1 2}

Gray holds a doctorate in leadership from the University of St. Thomas and a master's degree in Curriculum Theory and Instruction from Temple University, as well as a certificate in fundraising management, and she is pursuing a Master of Arts in History. Before her nonprofit work she spent twenty years in traditional learning in Damascus, Syria, studying Islamic sciences, Quran and Arabic, and she worked in education for twenty-five years. ¹

Rabata, which she founded after returning to the United States and touring North America listening to Muslim women, runs the Ribaat Academic Institute, Daybreak Press and Daybreak Bookshop, and a cultural center in Arden Hills, Minnesota; it received its 501(c)(3) status in 2015. Her books are Joy Jots: Exercises for a Happy Heart and Project Lina: Bringing Our Whole Selves to Islam, and with a co-translator she rendered two works of Samira Zayid into English, a compendium of sources on the Prophet ﷺ's biography and a practical manual of creed. Her Ramadan series, including We Are Khadija and Trying to Become Khadija, are carried on Rabata's channel. ^{1 2}