Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Al-Kabbani was a Lebanese-American Sufi scholar, spiritual leader, and a prominent figure in the Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi Order. He served as its representative and guide in the West following the passing of his teacher Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil Al-Haqqani in 2014. In 1991, at the instruction of his shaykh, Kabbani moved to the United States. Over his nearly six decades of service to the Ummah, he established over 23 Sufi study and meeting centres in the U.S. and Canada, and founded an Islamic retreat and healing centre in Michigan. He was also founder or chair of several organisations: the Islamic Supreme Council of America, As-Sunnah Foundation of America, Haqqani Educational Foundation’s American branch, and Muslim Magazine. Educated in Chemistry at the American University of Beirut, and Islamic law in Damascus, he merged scholarly rigour with deep spiritual training under Shaykh Nazim and Shaykh Abdullah Al-Daghestani. Kabbani’s legacy is marked by his advocacy for tolerance, peace, spiritual discipline, and resistance to extremism. His work leaves a durable imprint on contemporary Sufism, particularly in how traditional spirituality can exist in diaspora and address modern challenges.


