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Shaykh Imaduddeen Abu Hijleh is orginally from Jordon and has lived in Boston for 18 years. He has several ijazas or teaching certificates from well-known scholars in Qur'an, Hadith and Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence). He has spent several years studying Fiqh with several scholars, such as Shaykh Mustafa Mekki in UAE and Shaykh Ahmed Mabrook, the student of the Mufti of Egypt. Shaykh Imad also studied Hadith, Hadith Methodology, Fiqh, Fiqh Methodology and Aqeedah with other scholars. He is an author and teacher.

He founded and taught at the Razi Institute from 1992 to 2000 in Everett, MA, which was focused on teaching the basics of Islamic Knowledge. He taught at Harvard University, Cambridge MA from 2004 to 2005 (through MSA). Shaykh Imad wrote a 850 page book covering topics including Aqeedah, Fiqh and Seerah and Sufism. This book has been certified by Ahmad Mukhtar Ramzi (the famous Egyptian scholar of Hadith), Shaykh Nuh Ali Salman (the Mufti of Jordon), and AlAzhar University of Egypt among others. Shaykh Imad also wrote a book on the crises of Zakat in the West, which was certified by scholars in Jordon.

He is currently based in Tarim Yemen with his Shaykh Habib Umar bin Hafidh, and is writing additional works on Fiqh in the West, covering topics such as fasting, family relations, inheritance and dawah.