Who started MANA?
The idea of MANA emerged virtually independently in different conversations among various Muslim leaders including Siraj Wahhaj, Zaid Shakir, Hamza Yusuf, Talib Abdur Rashid, Asim Abdur Rashid, Ihsan Bagby, R. Mukhtar Curtis, Abdul Hakim Jackson, Amir al-Islam and many others. A meeting was held in Philadelphia, PA where Imam Siraj Wahhaj was elected as the Amir of MANA. Although the planning of MANA started much earlier, MANA finally started working in late 2005.
