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Imam Muhammad Abdul Latif Finch is an American Muslim Lecturer, Teacher, and Da'ee. After converting to Islam, he began seeking sacred knowledge and eventually in 2002 moved his family to the San Francisco Bay Area to study and be amongst the first students of the Zaytuna Institute (now Zaytuna College) where he earned his ijazaa in Islamic Sciences including; Quranic Sciences, Hadith, Maliki and Shafi'i Jurisprudence, Usul Fiqh, Seerah, Logic, and Arabic Grammar and Morphology under the tutelage of noted scholars; Shaykh Hamza Yusef, Shaykh Salik bin Siddina, Imam Zaid Shakir, Shaykh Abdur Rahman Taahir, Qari Umar Bellahi, Shaykh Abdullah Ali, and Shaykh Yahya Rhodus.

Since graduating in 2008, Imam Muhammad Abdul Latif has continued his studies under Dr. Umar Farooq Abdullah, Shaikh Abdallah Bin Bayyah and Shaykh Mahy Cisse. Under the guidance of Imam Zaid Shakir, Imam Muhammad Abdul Latif co-founded the Lighthouse Mosque in Oakland, California where he served as the Imam till 2012. In addition he became a program developer for Deen Intensive Foundation, Seekers Guidance and assisted Zaytuna College 's Summer Arabic Intensive program.

Muhammad Abdul Latif is currently residing in Berkeley, California where he is pursuing a Master's degree in Philosophy at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, a member of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.