Habib Umar bin Hafiz
Habib Umar bin Hafiz , is a Yemeni Sufi Islamic scholar, teacher, founder and the dean of Dar alMustafa Islamic seminary. He also a member of the Supreme Advisory Council for the Tabah Foundation in Abu Dhabi.
Umar bin Hafiz was born onMay 1963 CE orMuharram 1383 AH in Tarim, Hadhramaut, Yemen, and raised in a household that possessed a tradition and lineage of Islamic scholarship and righteousness by his father. His father was Muhammad bin Salim bin Hafiz, a Habib and mufti of Tarim, a pious caller to Islam, scholar, and a martyr of the communist uprising. He is a sayyid through his grandson Hussein ibn Ali. The surname Hafiz comes from his great grandfathers name, a branch of the family of Shaikh Abubakr bin Salim, which is also the name of his paternal eighth generation progenitor.
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