As Islam grows in the United States, some communities are dealing with a Muslim clergy shortage. A Detroit-area mosque is working to ease the problem by operating a seminary.
Imam Sayed Hassan Al-Qazwini speaks at the Islamic Institute of America, home of the Al-Hujjah Islamic Seminary, in Dearborn Heights, Mich., Oct. 1, 2019. Al-Hujjah is the newest of several seminaries focused on the Shiite branch of Islam in the United States and Canada working to address a shortage of leaders as an increasing number of U.S. Muslims seek guidance from people who speak their primary language and experience their culture.
“In many other states there are mosques with no ... functional imam, who can assume the responsibilities of the religious leader or even speak,” said Islamic Institute of America leader Imam Hassan Qazwini, who started the seminary with his son. “I thought maybe a long-term solution for facing this shortage is to have our own Shiite Islamic seminary in the U.S., instead of waiting for imams to come.
In a class on a recent evening, the younger Qazwini led an intense session on faith, proposing case studies, playing devil’s advocate and prompting a philosophical back-and-forth with his students. His execution is informal but authoritative. The students understand him. “On one hand, you can find an imam who is very knowledgeable, very strong background in theology, but that person might not speak English or might have lived most of his life outside the country,” Nawras said. “On the other hand, you might find someone who is born here and educated here, but they don’t have a good or strong theology background.
“Those who were able to get the visa and they came here, they were also not very effective, because their mindset was very different than the people who had migrated here... not to mention the communication barrier,” Faezi said.
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