Dr. AbdurRahman Isbieh

Dr. AbdurRahman Isbieh is a Palestinian scholar holding a Ph.D. in the Islamic Sciences & Arabic language, an Imam, Hafidh of the Quran, Qari & founder of Hibr Institute.

Dr. AbdurRahman Isbieh is from a Palestinian family of renowned scholars and intellectuals. He grew up in Amman, Jordan where he completed the memorization of the Quran at the tender age of 8. He became an Imam at the young age of 11 and was selected by the Jordanian government as Imam and Khateeb due to his wisdom, knowledge, and passionate sermons. Before 12, he was already training to become an Islamic scholar under senior scholars of the Arab world in Amman and Madinah. His experience & precedence amongst his peers gained him an invitation to become a full-time resident scholar in the Masjid-Al-Haram, Makkah.

Alongside his studies as a teenager, he was an admirable teacher and businessman. He taught and trained foreign diplomats, ambassadors, scholars, & other notable figures of Jordan, Turkey, China, Indonesia, the USA, and beyond. He also established his own company, Sage Valley, that specializes in fine foods and organic products, including the blessed Sidr & Blackseed honey, olives, & olive oil from the Isbieh family olive orchards encompassing over 170 acres of land. His health foods are distributed throughout the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Middle East, Asia, & the United States.

After dedicating more than 16 years of his life to the pursuit of sacred knowledge and acquiring his Ph.D. in Arabic Language and Islamic Studies, Shaykh AbdurRahman completed his formal study of the Islamic sciences and went on to earn multiple diplomas & awards from the Kingdom of Jordan, and legal teaching licenses in the Islamic sciences and Arabic language from the most renowned senior scholars of  Syria, Jordan, & Palestine, etc. including the reputed Syrian scholar, Shaykh Abu al-Hasan Muhyiddīn al-Kurdi; he had one of the shortest chains of transmission in the world and he was responsible for thousands of people memorizing the Quran due to his forward thinking and wisdom. 

Shaykh AbdurRahman Isbieh’s studies include theology, Islamic law, traditional psychology, logic, ethics, tafsir, fiqh (jurisprudence) of the four major schools of thought, legal theory, the major books of hadith such as the Muwatta and the six major books of hadith and hadith methodology, Arabic grammar, morphology, elocution (tajwīd), rhetoric, dialectics, history, Seerah, etc. He memorized the Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik, Al-Jazariyyah, Matn Abi Shuja’ (jurisprudence), Matn Rahabiyah, & other major Islamic texts. After his studies, he dedicated years to teaching and training future scholars. He is trilingual, skilled in Arabic Calligraphy & licensed in Hijama’ (Cupping). Shaykh Abdurrahman has also been invited to many notable places and internationally to Jakarta, Indonesia to speak at the international conference on racism in 2023. 

In 2021, Shaykh Abdurrahman moved to the United States. He founded Hibr Institute, an educational foundation of Islamic scholars and professionals dedicated to Islamic scholarship and the preservation of faith. Following his childhood business passions, he founded a fine jewelry and luxury fashion company, Sultan Exclusive. 

Presently, Shaykh AbdurRahman Isbieh lives with his family in Princeton, New Jersey where he leads prayers, gives sermons, travels internationally for business & conferences, and teaches the Islamic sciences and Arabic language for Hibr Institute in Princeton, at different māsjid, and community centers in the region and beyond.