Abdullah Hakim Quick was born in the United States of America and accepted Islam in Canada in 1970. He pursued his study of Islam at the Islamic University of Madinah, a religious university in Saudi Arabia, where he graduated and received an ijaza from the College of Da’wah and Islamic Sciences in 1979. He later completed a master’s degree and a doctorate in African History at the University of Toronto in Canada. Shaykh Abdullah has served as an imam, teacher, and counselor in the USA, Canada and the West Indies. For three years, he contributed to the religious page of Canada’s leading newspaper. He has travelled to over 51 countries on lecture, research and educational tours.

Presently, he is a senior lecturer on the history of Islam in Africa at The International Peace University South Africa in Cape Town and an Islamic council member of the Muslim Judicial Council, Cape Town, South Africa. Shaykh Abdullah is also the director of the Discover Islam Centre (Cape Town) and Ameer of the Dawah Coordinating Forum of South Africa.

Today, the world is in need of innovative rethinking based on original, authentic sources. Dr Abdullah Hakim exemplifies of this new, way of progressive thinking.