Sh Wahib Abdul Jabaar
Senior Lecturer
Shaykh Muhammad Wahīb Abdul-Jabbar is a senior lecturer at the International Peace College in South Africa. Sh. Muhammad began his studies at a young age at Darul Uloom Zakaria. Upon his return to Cape Town, he continued his studies and completed his pre-engineering program. He later traveled to Damascus, Syria, to complete an intensive Arabic language program at Ma'had al-Fath al-Islāmi, as well as Imāmah and Da’wah courses at Ma'had & Kulliyyah Ahmad Kuftāru. Thereafter, he went to Hadhramaut, Yemen, to study the Shāfi’ī madhhab and other sciences at the Ribāt Tarim and Dārul Mustafā. After receiving ijāzāt (certificates) in many different sciences, he returned to Cape Town in 2016, where he was immediately appointed as a senior lecturer at the International Peace College South Africa (IPSA), a position he holds till today. He has a BA Honors in Maqasid al-Shari’ah and an MA in Applied Islamic Thought. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD at the University of the Western Cape.