Teachings of the Prophet
with Imam Adeyinka Muhammad Mendes

We are honored to have Imam Adeyikna Muhammad Mendes as our teacher for the Winter quarter of our flagship Wasat Wednesday series. The course, entitled The Deep Sunnah: Spiritual Teachings of the Prophet, will be a commentary on 40 hadith that were compiled by the spiritual luminary of the 20th century Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari.  

Imam Mendes is director of the Garden of Knowledge Academy and founder of the Bilal Spiritual Center for Peace, the Arts, and Consciousness. An Ohio native with Yoruba, Brazilian, and African-American ancestry, he embraced Islam at seventeen and went on to study history at Morehouse College and Arabic at the Ohio State University, as well as the Islamic sciences primarily in Syria, Mauritania, Nigeria, and the United States. Imam Mendes is particularly passionate about environmental justice, women's empowerment, and uplifting African-Americans with knowledge of their vast spiritual, intellectual, and sociocultural legacy.