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Shaykh Khalid Shah

Shaykh Khalid was born in Brazil to Pakistani parents and raised in Australia. His late father Shaykh Saeed was an Aalim and Imam. After obtaining a Bachelors of Information Systems from Monash University, he devoted his time to the study at Darul Ulum (Melbourne), where he completed the 6 years Aalim course in 2009. During the same period he completed Masters in TESOL (Teaching English to speakers of other languages).

Shaykh Khalid is passionate about Classical Islamic education and furthering its establishment in Australia especially in the establishment of maktabs and madrasas. He is the founder and principal of Kashiful Uloom, where he teaches daily. He is the Imam and Khatib at UMMA centre, Doncaster East and oversees UMMA’s maktab and teaches adult classes. He has also translated and published 3 books available on Amazon.