Nouman ali khan biography family

American Islamic scholar (born )

Nouman Ali Khan (born ) is an American Islamic scholar who founded the Bayyinah Institute for Arabic and Qur’anic Studies after serving as an instructor of Arabic at Nassau Community College.^[2][3] He has been named one of the most influential Muslims in the world by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre of Jordan.^[4][5]

Early and personal life

Khan was born in , in East Germany to a Pakistani Punjabi family and spent his preschool years in the former East Berlin.^[6][7] His father then worked for the Pakistan Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where Khan attended the Pakistan Embassy school from grades 2 to 8.

He described living in Saudi Arabia at the time as a “very innocent society for children”.^[8] His father moved the family to New York when Khan was in his teens. Khan struggled with his faith as a teenager and at one point identified as an atheist