Ustadha Dr. Rania Awaad and Hafiza Suzane Derani earn their Quran Ijaza in the canonical readings (qira’at) of the Qur'an during The Rahmah Foundation's women's grand Qiyam proudly hosted on April 15, 2023 (Ramadan 2023) at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California.

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Hafitha Suzane Derani received her Ijaza in Tajwid at age 15, and she completed the memorization of the Qur'an shortly after. She subsequently received her Ijaza in the ten canonical readings (qira'at) of the Qur'an in 2023. She graduated with a B.A. in European and Middle Eastern history, focusing on secondary education. She is an educator with extensive experience teaching the Qur'an to students of all ages and backgrounds for over twenty years. She also taught history and Islamic studies to middle and high school students. With her traditional training and classical teaching experience, Hafitha Suzane has taught multi-level individualized and group classes for children, teens, and adults. She has also held motivational workshops for teens and women on how to excel in their Qur'an studies.

Hafitha Suzane released her first Islamic children's book, "The Quran My Best Friend, in Ramadan 2020. She lives in Michigan with her family, where she continues to reach Qur'an. She serves as a board member for The Rahmah Foundation. Hafiza Suzane continues to further her studies in the different sciences of the Qur'an with scholars worldwide and write books for children and mentor youth.

Ustadha Suzane offers Qur'an memorization and Tajwid classes. Learn more: http://mcceastbay.org/suzane

Ustadha Dr. Rania Awaad was reared in the U.S. She began her formal study of the traditional Islamic sciences when her parents permitted her to travel to Damascus, Syria, at 14. Her desire to continue studying the Deen resulted in multiple trips back to Damascus, interspersed between her high school, college, and medical studies. She was honored to receive Ijaazah (authorization to teach) several branches of the Shari’ah sciences at the hands of many renowned scholars, including many female scholars. She has received Ijaazah to teach Tajwid in the Hafs and Warsh recitations from the late eminent Syrian scholar Shaykh Abu Hassan al-Kurdi. In addition to completing several advanced texts of the Shafi’i madhhab, she is licensed to teach texts of Maliki fiqh, Adab and Ihsan. Currently, Ustadha Rania teaches online and local classes for The Rahmah Foundation, Rabata, and is on the faculty of Zaytuna College, where she teaches courses in Shafi’i fiqh, women’s issues in fiqh, and has helped develop and co-direct the Tajweed and Hifz program.

Ustadha Rania is also a medical doctor with a specialty in Psychiatry. She completed her Psychiatric residency and fellowship training at Stanford University, where she is currently on the faculty as a Clinical Instructor in the Stanford Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences department. Her medical interests include addressing mental health care concerns in the Muslim community- particularly that of Muslim women and girls.

She currently serves as the Director of the Rahmah Foundation, a non-profit organization that teaches Muslim women and girls traditional Islamic knowledge. In this capacity, she also heads the Murbbiyah Mentoring Program, which trains young women to teach and mentor Muslim girls and teens. Ustadha Rania is both a wife and a mother; she has been counseling and teaching women classes on Tajwid, Shafi’i Fiqh, Ihsan, marriage, and raising children since 1999.

Learn more about Dr. Rania: http://med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/re...