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ajiss-875	Elaradi, Hadeel	IIIT Intellectual Panels	2017.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1682	57	45	Abubaker Al-Shingieti (executive director, IIIT) introduced IIIT’s mis- sion and commitment to creating programs that encourage professional de- velopment for both imams and Muslim community leaders and noted several other responsibilities of a community leader, including “the legal contexts, the political environment, social-cultural factors and variables, these are im- portant elements that in many ways influence, if not determine, the educa- tional needs for our imams and community leaders, in the American context.” Zahid Bukhari (former national president, ICNA; director, American Muslim Studies Program; fellow, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University) spoke about the pressures of keeping up with other religious leadership systems, looking at the mosque’s overall management and the types of imams required, and training imams and community leaders to communicate competently on generational, gender, ethnic, and all other is- sues.	cache/ajiss-875.pdf	txt/ajiss-875.txt