About MTI

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Meet Ustadh Ashir Kirk

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Ustadh Ashir is the founder and Executive Director of Measured Tones Institute of Quran. Born to a Muslim convert mother, he started studying Quran as the age of 10. At 16, he dropped out of high school to pursue his Quranic studies in Damascus for 4 years and 2 years in Morocco, before moving back to the States to continue studying. He received ‘ijaazah in both Hafs Shatibiyyah and Tayyibatun Nashr.

Ustadh Ashir received the Muhammad Ali scholarship to Bayan Theological Seminary in Chicago to pursue his Masters of Divinity with a concentration in Islamic Chaplaincy. When he’s not focused on MTI, he divides his time between running two businesses, working with nonprofits and his local masjid in Memphis, TN.

Instructors

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Ust. Ashir Kirk

Ummu

Ust. Ummu Muzzammil

Ust. Naisha Chowdhury

Ust. Deenat Yusuf

Ust. Halima Nalo Afi

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Ust. Ashir Kirk

Ustadh Ashir is the founder and Executive Director of Measured Tones Institute of Quran. Born to a Muslim convert mother, he started studying Quran as the age of 10. At 16, he dropped out of high school to pursue his Quranic studies in Damascus for 4 years and 2 years in Morocco, before moving back to the States to continue studying. He received ‘ijaazah in both Hafs Shatibiyyah and Tayyibatun Nashr.


Ust. Ashir received the Muhammad Ali scholarship to Bayan Theological Seminary in Chicago to pursue his Master’s of Divinity with a concentration in Islamic Chaplaincy. When he’s not wholly focused on MTI, he divides his time between running two businesses, working with nonprofits and his local masjid in Memphis, TN.

Ummu

Ust. Ummu Muzzammil

Ust. Naisha Chowdhury

Ust. Deenat Yusuf

Ust. Halima Nalo Afi

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