Addressing the Crisis of Islamic Authority

Islam has never become rooted in a particular land until that land began producing its own religious scholars. For this reason, the Rashad Scholarship has been established in order to encourage the development of qualified Islamic leadership in the Houston community. The scholarship aims to fill the great void of a balanced Islamic discourse in the community by regularly sponsoring students of different backgrounds to immerse themselves in religious studies for a period of time and to subsequently return to serve their respective communities.

Why it Matters

Organic Imams seeks to produce qualified homegrown leadership through a scholarship program, which provides students direction and financial fortitude in order that they may be able to study the Islamic Sciences in fitting institutions thus, allowing them to focus all of their attention to their studies. These students will return to Houston with a degree in the Islamic sciences and an enriched understanding and wisdom of creating a properly fortified community, modeled by classical scholars of Islam. We aim to facilitate the ideal model of scholarship by harvesting youth from our very own city while taking advantage of the wisdom and knowledge presented in the sacred sciences: providing scholars from within ourselves who have gained knowledge from the original sources.


This scholarship serves to fulfill a communal obligation of establishing Islamic Scholarship and benefits the community and thus, the responsibility of funding this project lies on our shoulders.

How You Can Help

1. Donate to our campaign!