Abdurrahman Khan

Abdurrahman Khan was born and raised in Flushing, New York — a neighbourhood in the borough of Queens, and home to one of the most diverse Muslim communities in the United States. He received his earliest formal education at Flushing Muslim Center, where he attended from kindergarten through the third grade, establishing a foundation in both Islamic and general studies from an early age.

In 2009, at the age of seven, he enrolled at Darul Uloom New York, where he embarked on the path of Ḥifẓ — the complete memorisation of the Holy Qurʾān. After one year of Nāẓirah (recitation and proper reading), he committed himself fully to the memorisation, completing the entire Qurʾān in approximately two and a half years. He formally completed his Ḥifẓ in 2014, and remained for an additional year and a half of Daur — an intensive programme of structured revision designed to consolidate and strengthen the memorisation. He concluded his time at Darul Uloom New York in 2015.

He thereafter attended Al-Mamoor School in New York for the eighth and ninth grades, where he demonstrated exceptional academic ability, graduating as Valedictorian of his eighth-grade class in 2016. He subsequently completed grades ten through twelve at New Hyde Park Memorial High School in just two years — pursuing advanced-level coursework throughout — and graduated with a weighted GPA of 95 and academic honours.

Following high school, Abdurrahman Khan enrolled in the traditional six-year ʿĀlimiyyah programme — the classical curriculum of Islamic seminary education — at Jamia Qurania Academy in New York in 2019. The ʿĀlimiyyah curriculum encompasses the full range of the traditional Islamic sciences, including Arabic grammar (Naḥw) and morphology (Ṣarf), rhetoric (Balāgha), Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh), the principles of jurisprudence (Uṣūl al-Fiqh), Qurʾānic exegesis (Tafsīr), the sciences of Ḥadīth, theology (ʿAqīdah), and logic (Manṭiq).

After completing the first three years of the programme at Jamia Qurania Academy, he transferred in 2022 to Darul Uloom New York to complete the final three years under senior Muḥaddithīn and scholars of the highest calibre based in the United States. The advanced years of the ʿĀlimiyyah at Darul Uloom New York encompassed the study of the major works of Ḥadīth — including the six canonical collections — alongside advanced texts in Fiqh, Tafsīr, and Uṣūl al-Fiqh.

He graduated from the ʿĀlimiyyah programme in August 2025, receiving the traditional Dastarbandi (turban-tying ceremony) in recognition of the completion of his Islamic seminary studies. Upon graduation, he was concurrently awarded a Master's degree in Islamic Sciences from Jamia Binoria — a globally recognised institution of Islamic scholarship — in recognition of the advanced level of study undertaken over the course of the ʿĀlimiyyah programme.

Pursuing his commitment to the integration of traditional Islamic learning and modern intellectual inquiry, Abdurrahman Khan enrolled simultaneously in the Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science programme at CUNY Queens College in Flushing, New York — beginning his undergraduate studies in 2019 concurrently with the ʿĀlimiyyah programme.

Over the course of seven years of parallel study — balancing the full-time demands of Islamic seminary education with a rigorous undergraduate curriculum — he completed coursework in Linear Algebra, Calculus II, Data Structures, Operating Systems, Principles of Programming Languages, and Post-Quantum Cryptography, among other subjects.

He formally completed his undergraduate studies in January 2026, graduating Cum Laude with a cumulative GPA of 3.67 and academic honours — a distinction awarded to students demonstrating outstanding academic achievement.

Following the completion of the ʿĀlimiyyah programme, Abdurrahman Khan enrolled in the post-graduate Takhaṣṣuṣ programme in Islamic Jurisprudence and the Issuance of Legal Verdicts (Iftāʾ) at Darul Uloom New York — a two-year programme of intensive specialisation designed to train qualified Islamic jurists capable of issuing fatwā.

The Takhaṣṣuṣ programme is considered the highest level of formal Islamic legal education, training students in the methodology of fatwā issuance (Uṣūl al-Iftāʾ), applied comparative jurisprudence across the four Sunni schools of law, and the application of classical legal frameworks to contemporary legal questions.

He is currently studying under Mufti Manzoor and Mufti Mizaanur Rahman Sayed — two of the senior muftis and scholars in the United States — both of whom hold significant academic lineages tracing back to the major institutions of Islamic learning in South Asia.