Anse Maryam Salman serves as a Tajwīd instructor at the Ribaat Academic Institute. She graduated with a degree in Early Childhood and Elementary Education. In the late nineties, she spent an initial period of three years in Damascus, Syria, where she studied Arabic and Shāfiʿī fiqh. She completed the memorization of the Qur’an and received an ijāza in Quran recitation from the late Syrian scholar, Shaykh Abu al-Hasan al-Kurdi.
Since returning to the United States, Anse Maryam has been actively involved in teaching both privately and in classroom settings to women, teenagers and children. She continues her Islamic Studies at the Ribaat Academic Institute and currently resides in Chicago with her husband and four children.
Anse Maryam has been teaching Tajwīd with Ribaat since 2015.