Shaykh Ammar Jakda

Shaykh Ammar Jakda was born and raised in Cambridge, Ontario. After completing his high school education, he traveled to Gujarat, India, where he completed the memorization of the Qur’an. His pursuit of Islamic knowledge then took him to the United Kingdom, where he studied for a number of years at Jamiatul Ilm Wal Huda in Blackburn, before continuing his studies at Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow, India, one of the most prestigious seminaries in the Muslim world, from which he graduated as an ʿālim. He later spent two years in Istanbul, Türkiye, specializing in the Islamic rational sciences, particularly theology and logic. Shaykh Ammar currently serves as the Dean of Education and Lead Instructor at Tamhid Institute, where he is engaged in active curriculum development and teaches across a range of disciplines, including Arabic, theology, law, and Islamic historiography. He is also pursuing an undergraduate degree in Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto, furthering his academic engagement with Islamic intellectual history and the broader humanities. Alongside his institutional work, he has taught and lectured at a number of organizations, including the Wijhah Initiative, Madina Institute, Jame Abu Bakr Siddique, MHMA (Mountain House Muslim Association, USA), The Muslim Society of Waterloo, and Al Khalil Academy, delivering courses in hadith studies, Hanafi fiqh, and Islamic theology. Deeply committed to education, Shaykh Ammar is passionate about raising the standard of academic learning within the Muslim community, seeking to bridge the depth of the classical tradition with the intellectual demands of the modern world.