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Suhaib Webb          

Founder of SWISS; Professor at NYU's Graduate School of Public Service

Suhaib, William Webb has a degree in Education from the University of Central Oklahoma, and Islamic Law from al-Azhar in Cairo. He was named as a "Faith Leader to Watch" by The Center for American Progress in 2016, selected by the Muslim community as one of CNN’s 25 Most Influential Leaders; as well as one of "Five Hundred of the Most Influential Muslims" by the Royal Islamic Studies Center in 2021.

He was the resident scholar at the ICNYU and taught a course at NYU on Islamic Law and Ethics. He sits on the executive council of the North American Fiqh Council, is a member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, and sits on the advisory board of the Political Theologic Network.

His writings have appeared in the New York Times, and he has been on CNN, NBS, al-Jazeera, CBS and more. He currently runs an online institute that focuses on functional religious literacy for English-speaking Muslims.

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