Celebrating the birth of Imam Mahdi (AS)

Shaykh Arif
Abdulhussain founded the Al-Mahdi Institute in 1993, and currently serves as
its Director and Senior Lecturer in Usul al-Fiqh and Muslim Philosophy. For
over twenty years, Shaykh Arif has been at the forefront of developing and
delivering advanced Islamic studies, tailored toward training students capable
of addressing the needs of contemporary societies.

Shaykh Arif was educated at the Madrassah Syed al-Khoei, London
from 1985 and graduated with Honours in 1988 where he also taught Grammar,
Logic, Islamic Law and Usul al-Fiqh. He then furthered his studies in the
Islamic Seminary in Qum, carrying out traditional Post-Graduate Islamic studies
between 1989-93. He also attended private training and research studies with
leading scholars of Qum between 1990 and 1994. Alongside these studies, he also
taught in Qum across a wide spectrum of the traditional Muslim scholarly
disciplines. On his return to the U.K. after founding the Al-Mahdi Institute he
continued his graduate (kharij) training in Usul al-Fiqh and Fiqh from 1994
until 2008 under Ayatullah H. Amini, a student of Ayatullah Khoei.