Nouman Ali Khan

Nouman Ali Khan (; born 1978 ) is an American Islamic speaker and the founder of the Bayyinah Institute for Arabic and Qur'anic Studies, an Arabic institute based in Irving, Texas. He later lived in Saudi Arabia, where he attended the Pakistan Embassy School from second through eighth grade, before moving to New York as a teenager. There he struggled with his faith, briefly identified as an atheist, and eventually became religious.

Career Before entering religious education, Khan worked in information technology, which he left to pursue Quranic studies full-time. He has taught over 10,000 students via seminars and programs at Bayyinah. He has also highlighted the generational challenge facing American mosques, noting that foreign-born imams may connect with older congregants but struggle to reach younger American-born Muslims. Khan has also argued that American Muslims, geographically separated from the broader Muslim world, must develop their own traditions and practices. According to the panel, Khan lied to the women about his marital status, sent sexually suggestive messages, and when confronted, attempted to buy their silence through financial payments or threatened them. A second panel of six Muslim clerics and academics conducted a separate inquiry and affirmed that Khan had "engaged in conduct unbecoming of any believer, much less someone who teaches about the Holy Qur'an," adding that they "unequivocally recognize and support survivors of abuse who are often silenced in our communities."

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