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Abdullah Nooruddeen Durkee | |
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| Born | Stephen Durkee 1938 |
| Died | 13 September 2020 (aged 81–82) |
| Spouse | Noura Durkee |
| Era | Modern era |
| Region | North America |
| School | Sufi |
Abdullah Nooruddeen Durkee (born Stephen Durkee) was a Muslim scholar, thinker, author, translator, and the Khalifah (successor) for North America of the Shadhdhuli School for Tranquility of Being and the Illumination of Hearts, Green Mountain Branch. Nooruddeen Durkee became a Muslim in his early thirties in Al-Quds, Jerusalem. He was one of the co-founders of Lama Foundation and founder of Dar al-Islam Foundation.
His major contributions were in the area of education, specifically in the realm of teaching, reading, writing, and reciting of Qur'anic Arabic, which grew out of his work in the translation and transliteration of the sacred texts of the Shadhdhuliyyah and finally the Qur'an. One of his main contributions was the development of a transliteration of the Qur'an, which enabled non-Arabic speakers to understand and recite Quranic Arabic. Additionally, he served as a Khateeb and an imam for various Muslim communities on the Eastern coast of the United States.
Nooruddeen was granted an 'ijaza in Islamic Calling (da'wah) by Umar Abdullah of Comoros, an 'ijaza in Islamic Introspection and Observation (muraqabah) by Seyed Ali Ashraf of Dhaka, Jeddahand Cambridge, and an 'ijaza in the Teaching, Propagation of Islam and the Nourishment of the Murids by Muhammad al-Jamal ar-Rif'aiof al-Quds ash-Shareef. In the professional world, he was granted a master's degree [M.Arch] in Islamic Building in 1983 by Dr. Hasan Fathy of the Institute of Appropriate Technology in Kuwait.
He maintained a Zawiya at the Islamic Study Center in Charlottesville, Virginia, which is also the location of The Green Mountain School, the third school Nooruddeen founded. Until his death in 2020, he lived on Green Mountain Farm in Keene, Virginia with his wife Noura Durkee.