{"id":2960,"date":"2025-03-16T04:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T04:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmseminary.com.au\/home\/mms_staging\/?page_id=2960"},"modified":"2025-08-08T03:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T03:47:03","slug":"bio-saied-altabaa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mmseminary.com.au\/home\/bio-saied-altabaa\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio &#8211; Saied Altabaa"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2960\" class=\"elementor elementor-2960\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c4a15d5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"c4a15d5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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After moving to Australia, he pursued Islamic studies alongside mainstream education, earning dual bachelor&#8217;s degrees in Business and Computer Engineering, followed by a master&#8217;s in Cybersecurity. In 2020, he completed a diploma, master&#8217;s, and PhD in teaching Arabic and Quran to non-native speakers.<\/p><p data-start=\"438\" data-end=\"824\">For over 16 years, Dr. Saied has been actively engaged in community service, contributing to Islamic student societies, establishing weekend schools, organizing Quran competitions, conducting leadership training courses, and delivering Friday sermons. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he expanded his outreach by training local imams in the Pacific Islands through the <em data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"822\">Khateeb Program.<\/em><\/p><p data-start=\"826\" data-end=\"1416\">Having lived in Melbourne, Sydney, and Bendigo, he has provided essential services to children, youth, and families. He currently serves as the principal of Virgin Mary Arabic School and has held leadership positions such as Deputy Director of Al-Salam Arabic Language School and Founder\/Director of Parramatta Arabic School. As a preacher and <em data-start=\"1170\" data-end=\"1179\">khateeb<\/em>, he has spearheaded initiatives like the <em data-start=\"1221\" data-end=\"1235\">Da\u2019wah Table<\/em> project and <em data-start=\"1248\" data-end=\"1266\">Open Mosque Day.<\/em> Additionally, he co-founded the <em data-start=\"1299\" data-end=\"1316\">Tilawah Program<\/em> to train Quran teachers and serves as the Technical Director of international Quran competitions.<\/p><p data-start=\"1418\" data-end=\"1598\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Dr. Saied holds several <em data-start=\"1442\" data-end=\"1451\">Ijazaat<\/em> in Hadith, continues his Quranic studies, and remains dedicated to serving the Muslim community through education, outreach, and <em data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1589\">Da\u2019wah<\/em> efforts.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8f4f879 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"8f4f879\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-62194c11 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"62194c11\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7f6c3ee0\" data-id=\"7f6c3ee0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently Teaching Principles of Propogating the Deen Sham&#8217;ail Tirmidhi Dr. Saied Altabaa was born in Syria, raised in Iraq, and later migrated to Jordan,<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2960","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmseminary.com.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmseminary.com.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmseminary.com.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmseminary.com.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmseminary.com.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/mmseminary.com.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4010,"href":"https:\/\/mmseminary.com.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2960\/revisions\/4010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmseminary.com.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}