Dr. Shuayb Wani is the Director and Co-Founder of the Dār Al ‘Ilm Institute.

He grew up in Kashmir and started his quest to learn Islamic ‘Ulūm during his schooling years. He completed his foundational Islāmic Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia University, India, and Al-Azhar University, Egypt. He devoted 10 years studying advanced Islāmic Studies specializing in Usūl al-Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) at International Islamic University, Malaysia.

His Ph.D research: “The Legal Thought of Imam al-Shafi‘i: An Analytical study of the theory of Bayān” was published by Dar Afaaq Al-Marefa, Riyadh, KSA 2021.

He has received Ijāzāt and Tazkiyah from leading Arab Scholars like Shaykh Dr. Bilal Faysal al-Bahr, Shaykh Dr. Hasan ibn Ibrahim al-Handawi, Shaykh Dr. Arif Ali Arif, Shaykh Dr. Muhammad Tahir al-Maysawi, Shaykh Dr. Abd al-Razzaq al-Kindi, and others.

He has been teaching Islamic ‘Ulūm (sciences) for close to two decades. He dedicates his time teaching, studying, and researching and is currently based in Turkey, where he resides with his family.