Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani is a scholar and Sufi shaykh born in Lebanon who has been active in North America lecturing, spreading Sufi teachings and founding Sufi centers. He was sent to America by his shaykh to establish the foundation of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order there. Since then,

Kabbani graduated from the American University of Beirut in Chemistry. He studied for a medical degree at Leuven in Belgium. Then he received his Islamic law Degree from Damascus. From childhood he has accompanied Shaykh Abdullah Fa'izi ad-Daghestani and Shaykh Nazim al-Qubrusi, both shaykhs of the Naqshbandi order.

He has lectured at many universities, including the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as at many spiritual and religious centers throughout North America, Europe, the Far East, and the Middle East.

He is a founding member and chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, an organisation that is used to promote the tolerance and moderation inherent in traditional Islam.