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Chaplain Muhsin Shaheed
Chaplain Muhsin Shaheed has been a Chaplain with the DFW Airport Interfaith Chaplaincy since September 1998.
Muhsin earned a Bachelor Degree in Criminal Justice with a Minor in Social Work from Texas Christian University (TCU) in December 1992, and in December 1994, earned his Master’s Degree in Liberal Arts with a concentration in History. He also studied Theology/Semantics and Pastoral Care at the Brite Theological Seminary at TCU from January 1995 to December 1995.
He earned a second Master of Arts Degree in Islamic Studies from The Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences in Sterling Virginia in July 2004; an affiliate of the Washington Theological Consortium, which has ten member institutions, including Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Muslim and Presbyterian - as well as two affiliates, that are either non-Christian or Interfaith theological institutions.
He completed 33 hours toward a doctorate in "Islam: With Focus on Islam in the African American Community From 1930 to 2008," at The Muslim Teacher's College in Randolph, Virginia in May of 2000 and completed Arabic Language I and II at The Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences of America in Fairfax, Virginia in spring 2004.
He is a graduate of Simon Wiesenthal Center of the Museum of Tolerance and The National Institute Against Hate Crimes & Terrorism in Los Angeles, California, January 2007. He studied Arabic and Qur'anic Studies at Al-Azhar Universoty/Mosque in Cario, Egypt, summer 2008.
He is a Co-Chairman of the North Texas Timbuktu Exhibition; Vice President of The Institute of Medieval Post Medieval Studies, Dallas/Fort Worth; a member on the Advisory Council for Al Shafi Clinic and Muslim Community Center for Human Services in Fort Worth; a board member of Tarrant County Crime Victim's Council Fort Worth, and he serves on several Mosque's boards in the Metroplex.
Muhsin is a co-founder of the Children of Abraham, founded in 1996 with Reverend Richard (Dick) Lord, Retired Pastor of Rush Creek Christian Church and Rabbi Jeffery Kaye, former Rabbi at Congregation Beth Shalom.
He is the editor of two books in addition to writing and editing several articles published in journals and encyclopedias. He has travelled and studied in Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Makka (Mecca) and Medina, Saudi Arabia.