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About hvsmrspct

Brother William (Halim) Breiannis entered Islam in 1996 and began studying with Sheikh Khalil Majdalawi (may Allah have mercy upon him) in 1998, entering his formal studies with him in the following year and remaining as a private student with him for over a decade. He traveled to Syria in 2004 to familiarize himself with he Arabic language at the world renown, Jami’a Abu Nur and, in 2007, received, from his Sheikh, a license to teach. Along with this, he traveled to Morocco and Malaysia to sit and benefit from some of the most senior scholars of Hadith. Through the Cordoba Academy for Classical Islamic studies brother Halim was honored to be the first to graduate the Hafidh Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani Hadith program, receiving license to teach their Hadith curriculum, as well as earning his diploma in Seerah and Adab. Along with this, Brother Halim has been honored to meet with and receive licenses in the classic texts of the sacred sciences from several prominent scholars of our time. Brother William continues to reside in Baltimore Md. USA with his wife and nine children, where he serves his local community.