About our Teachers

Shaykha Amira Rashidy

Shaykha Amira Rashidy received her Recitation Ijaza from Mishka North American University. She has completed a 4-year curriculum for her certification as a Quran teacher at Noor Academy in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and was the Director of Quran for 7 years for Baytul Iman Academy in Keansburg, NJ. Over a 17 year career she has been teaching a variety of students in Qur’an and Tajweed.

Shaikh Samir Arafa

Sh. Samir has been an esteemed Imam (Qari) and Quran teacher at ISMC (Masjid Al Amman) in New Jersey since 2013. He has led the Taraweeh prayers at ISMC since then and holds a Quran Ijazah from Al Azhar as well as from other esteemed scholars.

Shaikh Samir has also been instrumental in running Quran recitation and memorization programs at ISMC.

Shaykha Fatma AbdelAziz

Shaykha Fatma AbdelAziz recently joined ISCJ Quran Academy as a Quran teacher. Fatma received both her Ijaza to teach Quran and Isnad in Qira’at ‘Asem through Hafs in 2003. She has been teaching Quran for 15 years, in Egypt and the US. She was a teacher in the advanced program and lead examiner of graduating teachers in the Society for Qur’aan Huffaadh in Al-Minia, Egypt. In the US, she taught at the Memphis Islamic Center, the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, and was a lead teacher in the Quran program at the Muslim American Society. In 2011, she won the first US Quran Competition at the MAS-ICNA Convention. She taught students of different ages and different levels. Through her classes, she works to help students recite the Quran properly and apply Tajweed rules to have fine recitations that bring the Quran closer to their hearts and to the hearts of those who listen to them.

Sajid Fahumy

Sajid Fahumy has been part of the ISCJ community for 20 years. He went to Noor-Ul-Iman School for the entirety of his K-12 education and graduated in 2016. Sajid was a student of Shaykh Mamdouh Selim while at NUI and studied briefly with Shaykh Ismael Essa upon graduating. For the past several years, he has been a student of Shaykh Ahmed Ashour, and has spent this time improving his pronunciation and tajweed. Sajid enjoys working with youth. He is a volunteer for the ISCJ LIT committee and helped establish the Ashbal middle school boys social program. He is also the assistant head coach for the NUI HS soccer team. He also has many years of experience tutoring students of all ages in a wide variety of subjects. Sajid graduated from Rutgers University in 2020 with a BA in Biomathematics and a minor in Public Health. He is currently a medical student at RowanSOM in South Jersey.