Riad Saloojee

Shaykh Riad Saloojee is a lawyer by training and has worked in the fields of media and political activism. He studied the Islamic sciences at Dar al-‘Ulum al-‘Arabiyyah al-Islamiyyah (DUAI), a well-known Islamic seminary of higher learning in Strand, Cape Town, South Africa, where he also taught for a number of years after graduation. His teachers include Shaykh Muhammad Emin Er (may Allah sanctify his soul), Shaykh Mokhtar Maghraoui, Shaykh Taha Karaan (may Allah sanctify his soul), Shaykh Muaadth Allie and Shaykh Abdurragman Khan, among others.