{"id":35660,"date":"2019-12-23T21:35:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T02:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imam-us.org\/?page_id=35660"},"modified":"2023-12-15T12:11:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T17:11:12","slug":"shaykh-faiyaz-jaffer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imam-us.org\/shaykh-faiyaz-jaffer","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Shaykh Faiyaz Jaffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"section section--full-width section--hero section--acf-block section--acf-block-hero section--has-no-background text-center\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12 section__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero-title\">Dr. Shaykh Faiyaz Jaffer<\/h1>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/header>\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-111643  alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/imam-us.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ShaykhDrFaiyazJaffer-scaled-e1702660248871.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"349\" \/>Dr. Shaykh Faiyaz Jaffer is the Research Scholar for the Islamic Center at New York University and an Associate Chaplain for the Center of Global &amp; Spiritual Life at NYU. He holds a doctorate in education from New York University, with a focus on the identity development of Shia youth in the United States. Pursuing the classical course of Islamic education, he studied in the Seminary of Karbala, Iraq, one of the most prominent centers for Islamic learning.<\/p>\n<p>As a faith leader and social activist, Shaykh Jaffer has lectured at various universities, seminars, and workshops across the United States, Canada, Europe, East Africa, and the Middle East. As a highly sought-after lecturer and religious leader, he regularly leads prayer services and delivers sermons across North America. Due to the political and social climate, he has been making strides in the greater New York area by taking part in several interfaith seminars and discussions with the goal of increasing dialogue with faith leaders.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his roles at NYU&#8217;s Islamic Center, Dr. Shaykh Jaffer serves as the Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Service of NYU\u2019s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and his research has appeared in academic journals.<\/p>\n<p>He is a researcher and writer at I.M.A.M.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imam-us.org\/structure\/#scholarly_members\">Return to Structure<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Shaykh Faiyaz Jaffer is the Research Scholar for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24535,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35660","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Shaykh Faiyaz Jaffer - IMAM-US.org<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/imam-us.org\/shaykh-faiyaz-jaffer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr. Shaykh Faiyaz Jaffer - 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