Amal Aqilyare

Ustadha Amal Abdifatah, born in Virginia and raised in Minnesota, has had a lifelong interest in the Islamic sciences. She received her elementary, middle and high school education at Al-Amal School, a private Islamic school in Minnesota. She went on to pursue her passion for studying Islam traditionally by enrolling in and graduating from the five-year Alimiyah Program at Qalam Institute in Dallas, Texas. She is currently a Master’s student at the Islamic University of Minnesota, where she studies Hadith with Sh. Tariq Awadullah.

Ustadha Amal also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies from the University of Minnesota, with a focus on Islam.

She is the Founder and Executive Director of Strive Sisterhood, a nonprofit organization and Islamic women’s learning center dedicated to spreading Islamic knowledge to Muslim women.