Dr. Hamid Slimi, Islamic Scholar
Dr. Hamid Slimi is a prominent Imam in Canada. He is the Founder and President of Faith of Life Network. He has been serving as an Imam, Chaplain, Educator and Consultant in Canada for over 15 years in different religious and educational institutions.
He is also:
- Imam, Resident Scholar and Founder of Sayeda Khadija Centre
- The Founder and Chairman of the Canadian Centre for Deen Studies
- The current Chairman of the Canadian Council of Imams
- Lecturer at the Islamic Institute of Toronto
- Consultant on National and International issues related to religion and spirituality, Islam and Islamic Law, religious dialogue and Social issues
- Board member of different Interfaith and Community bodies/groups
- TV Host & Producer of Faith of Life TV Shows and documentaries
Dr. Slimi's traditional and academic speciality is in Islamic studies and Law as well as Comparative World Religions. In addition to the traditional degrees known as Ijazah, he holds two Masters degrees with High Honors in both disciplines from Morocco and the US and a PhD in Islamic Law from the U.K. He received both his traditional and academic learning in Morocco and attended other renowned institutions and universities in other parts of the world.
Dr. Slimi has been educated in Arabic, French and English since his early age as a little child. He received intensive training and learning in many Islamic disciplines including Aqeedah, Fiqh, Usul-ul-Fiqh, Maqasid, Tafseer, Seerah, Qur'an and Hadith Sciences and 'Ulum al-Lughah. Both His Ijazah and Graduate Shahadat are in Fiqh - Islamic Jurisprudence - and Usul-ul-Fiqh - Fundamentals of Jurisprudence. His extensive research has been in the field of Jurisprudential Rules, the Science of Maqasid (Objectives of Law) as well as al-Fiqh al-Muqaaran (Comparative Jurisprudence) in the Four Madhabs.
Dr. Slimi has been representing the Muslim community at many Multi-Faith Councils and in the continuous Interfaith Dialogues. He is also an adviser and consultant for a good number of different local and National institutions.
He has authored a few books and articles in Arabic and English specifically in Usul-al-Fiqh and Muslim Outreach and he wrote a few papers in French mainly in Islamic Jurisprudence. His book published in 2001 and 2002 "Terrorism: An Islamic Perspective" has been widely distributed among thousands of readers in North America and did receive very positive responses and encouragement. To this date, Dr. Slimi has hosted and produced over 200 TV Shows and over 200 DVDs and hundreds of CDs on different subjects related to faith and life matters.
He appears occasionally as a guest and consultant on local and national TV networks both in English and French and had his own weekly TV Show which he has been airing all over Canada and other countries continuously for more than four years now.