Director's Message
Director’s Message
Welcome to the Baytul-Iman Academy. BIA is one of the 250 unique North American schools. Our motto is excellence [Ihsan] in education and excellence in living. BIA’s foremost goal is to develop an Islamic personality that is fully capable to play a leading role in American society and the world at large.
Alhamdulilah, we are making steady progress to achieve our desired targets. We are indeed proud to have students who have continuously performed at a higher level on the nationally standardized tests.
Generally, our students have done better than their class level in the Terra Nova Standardized Tests. Fifty percent of our graduates in the last two years got admission into the prestigious Magnet Schools specializing in Allied Health, Bio-Medical Sciences and High Technology.
Director’s Biography
A short Biography of Dr. Talat Sultan – Director of Baytul-Iman Academy
■ Received his Masters in Islamic History and Culture from University of Karachi.
■ Came to the U.S.in December 1962
■ Received Doctorate of Education from University of California, Los Angeles
■ Served as:
■ Professor of Education and Chairman, Division of Education and Psychology at Barber-Scotia College, Concord, NC.
■ Director of Education for Islamic Society of North America [ISNA].
■ Professor of Research in Islamic Education at Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
■ Principal of Pleasant View [an Islamicel ementary] School, Memphis,Islamic Foundation School [Largest Islamic elementary, middle and high school in the U.S.], Chicago, Phoenix Metro Islamic School [Day Care through Eighth]and Washington Islamic Academy , Alexandria, VA.
Also served as:
■ Author and Director of four federal projects for in-service teacher education and community development.
■ Consultant and resource person on Islamic education to the governments of Brunei and Malaysia, International Islamic Universities of Pakistan and Malaysia, Islamic communities centers of the Caribbeans and scores of Islamic schools in the U.S. and Canada.
■ Founder President, Islamic Circle of North America, 1968-75 & 2003-05
■ President, Association of Muslim Social Scientist, 1979-81.
Author of five books on Islamic Education:
■ Curriculum Guide for Islamic Studies, Makkah: Umm Al-Qura University, 1992, 295pp.
■ Muslim Education and Community Development: An analytical Case Study of Pakistan. Makkah: Umm Al-Qura University, 1991,74pp.
■ Islamization of Education: The Need and the Plan. Makkah: Umm Al-Qura University, 1995, 95pp.
■ Manual for Curriculum Guides: An Islamic Perspective. Makkah: Umm Al-Qura University, 1996.128pp
■ Islami Nazm aur Uske Lawazimat, [ with three other co-authors],Lahore: Islamic Publications, 1997, 120pp.
