Zaytuna College & Renovatio Journal

Berkeley, California

The first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in America. Renovatio is the only Muslim journal operating at the intellectual register where the Islamic philosophical tradition meets Western thought. Faculty includes Hamza Yusuf, Abdal Hakim Murad, Oludamini Ogunnaike.

Hamza Yusuf · Abdal Hakim Murad (Tim Winter) · Oludamini Ogunnaike

SeekersGuidance

Global (online)

The largest free traditional Islamic online education platform in English. Five-level program presenting traditional Islamic knowledge with emphasis on living guidance. The digital infrastructure layer that Mashraba's reading circles are a human-scale version of.

Shaykh Walead Mossad · Imam Zaid Shakir · Habib Umar bin Hafiz · Yahya Rhodus

Al-Maqasid

United States

Islamic seminary founded by Shaykh Yahya Rhodus to facilitate the realization of Islam, Iman and Ihsan through immersion in the Prophetic Inheritance. A holistic approach to religious life embedded in love, mercy, knowledge, and good companionship.

Shaykh Yahya Rhodus

Deen Intensive Foundation

North America (programs worldwide)

Dedicated to preservation and dissemination of the core sacred sciences. Their flagship Rihla program — a four-week residential immersion — is the closest existing model to what Mashraba's intensive and Binā' aim to build.

Hamza Yusuf · Yahya Rhodus

The Oasis Initiative

مبادرة الواحة

Chicago, USA

Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah's organization. Sacred knowledge, mentorship, service + love for all. His crystal-clear-river metaphor is central to Mashraba's self-understanding. The closest existing organizational model to Mashraba.

Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah

Ta'leef Collective

تأليف

Bay Area & Chicago

Come as you are, to Islam as it is. Serves seekers, converts, and those on the periphery. The welcoming entry point — the American expression of what Mashraba is globally.

Ubaydullah Evans

El Encuentro

اللقاء

Medellín, Colombia

Traditional Islam contextualized for Colombia's cultural landscape, centered on community and love. Advised by Sheikh Muhammad Haydara al-Jīlānī and Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah — the same network, the same water. In a city where 90% of Muslims are converts.

Al-Hasan Alwattar Botero · Sheikh Muhammad Haydara al-Jīlānī (advisor) · Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah (advisor)

The Majlis

المجلس

Southern California

Traditional religious learning in SoCal. Founded by Shaykh Jamaal Diwan — UCSD convert, al-Azhar graduate — and Shaykha Muslema Purmul. An initiative rooted in traditional learning, contextualized for America, founded on the ethics of love and service.

Shaykh Jamaal Diwan · Shaykha Muslema Purmul

Zawiyah Foundation

مؤسسة الزاوية

Vancouver & Washington DC

Founded by Imam Fode Drame of the Jakhanke scholarly lineage — West African scholar-wanderers known for peaceful teaching. Their methodology recognizes embodiment as the highest form of interaction with knowledge.

Imam Fode Drame

Qadriyya Association

الجمعية القادرية

Banjul, The Gambia

Living silsila from ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī — the Ghawth al-Aʿẓam. Annual conferences, education, medical care. Their lessons include material by Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah. The source node in West Africa.

Sheikh Muhammad Haydara al-Jīlānī

The Rabbani Project

United Kingdom

Multi-branch collective: Salaam Café (monthly dhikr gatherings occupying city spaces with peace), Ladies of Light (women's retreats), Green Deen Tribe (Islam and ecology), Black Muslim Women Healing Collective.

Azahara International

أزهرة

Alpujarras, Spain

Sanctuary of learning in the Alpujarras mountains, forty minutes from Granada. Farm stay, youth camps, sunnah sports, Al-Andalus tours. On land whose irrigation channels date to Andalusian times. The most fully realized allied oasis.

Rumi Center for Spirituality and the Arts

مركز الرومي

Seattle / Global retreats

Founded by Baraka Blue. Retreats at Azahara and in Konya. Online courses on Rumi and Ibn ʿArabī. Baraka Blue is poet, musician, MA in Islamic Studies from GTU Berkeley, studied with traditional masters in Morocco, Turkey, and Yemen.

Baraka Blue

The Women Sanctuary

Mediterranean

Women's spiritual retreats embedded in the Islamic tradition. An ode to Allāh. Using Ibn Hazm — who wrote The Ring of the Dove in Córdoba a thousand years ago — as their touchstone.

Shifaa Community

Andalusia

Ibn ʿArabī and Rumi themed retreats at Azahara. Teachers include Baraka Blue, AbdelKarim Cederberg (Islamic pattern and design), Medina Tenour Whiteman (spiritual ecology of al-Andalus).

Alquería Al-Kawthar

القويرة الكوثر

Near Granada, Spain

Permaculture farm and madrassa on five hectares near Granada. Land owned by the Islamic Community of Spain, being restored from two decades of abandonment. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Editora Bismillah

دار بسم الله

São Paulo, Brazil

Publishing traditional Islamic texts in Portuguese. First translation of Ibn ʿArabī's Risāla al-Anwār. Doing in Brazil what Mashraba Press aims to do in English. Founded by Marcelo Jafar Cipolla — Muslim for 28 years, studied Arabic in Morocco.

Marcelo Jafar Cipolla

Associação Amana

أمانة

São Paulo, Brazil

Brazilian NGO founded by Muslims to support converts seeking to learn and practice Islam in a balanced, conscious manner. Executive Director is Marcelo Jafar Cipolla — the same person behind Editora Bismillah. The publishing arm and the community arm of Brazilian traditional Islam, run by the same person.

Marcelo Jafar Cipolla · Mansur Peixoto · Nátaly Safia Cipolla

Sacred Footsteps

UK (global publication)

A publication devoted to the pluralistic intellectual and cultural traditions of Islam. Thought, History, Culture, Cosmos, Travel. Friends of Mashraba — reaches broadly where Mashraba reaches deeply.

Halima Muslima Retreats

Alpujarras, Spain

Women-only retreats near Lanjaron in the Alpujarras — same valley as Azahara. Combining Islamic spirituality with holistic practice.