Hamza Yusuf delivered the key note speech at the ICNA Why Islam? Symposium on March 18, 2006 Hamza Yusuf Hamza Yusuf was born in Washington State and raised in Northern California. In 1977, he became Muslim and subsequently traveled to the Muslim world and studied for ten years in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, as well as North and West Africa. He received teaching licenses in various Islamic subjects from several well-known scholars in various countries. After ten years of studies abroad, he ...