Mansoor Umar

Imam Mansoor Rafiq Umar has been the Imam at the University at Albany since 2019. He holds a BA from the Darul Na'im Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies seminary, serves as Imam at the Muslim Community of Bethlehem and is the President of Halal Watch World, the first halal certification agency in the state of New York. He is also the founder and president of the United States Department of Halal Standards (USDHS) and has studied under various scholars of theology and Islamic legal theory.