Dr. Yasir Qadhi is the Resident Scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center. He is also the Dean of The Islamic Seminary of America. He is one of the few people who has combined a traditional eastern Islamic seminary education with a western academic training of the study of Islam. Yasir graduated with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston and further got his education from the Islamic University of Madinah where he graduated with a B.A. from the College of Hadith and Islamic Sciences and then completed a M.A. in Islamic Theology from the College of Dawah. Dr. Qadhi completed a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University after returning from Madina. He has authored several books, published academic articles, and appeared on numerous satellite and TV stations around the globe. His online videos are of the most popular and highly watched Islamic videos in English.