Imam Marc
Manley

I currently serve as the imam and religious director at Middle Ground. I started my path towards being an imam back in Detroit, where I began my Islamic studies under the tutelage of Dr. Ali Sulaiman Ali. I subsequently spent a number of years studying the Warsh recitation of the Qur'an from a hafidh from Algeria.

Years later I found myself in Philadelphia, America's premier city for indigenous Islam, where, under the support of teachers such as Shaykh Anwar Muhaimin at Quba Masjid and Adnan Zulficar, I took the position of Muslim Chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania. From there I also developed the first Muslim chaplaincy program at Drexel University. Not long after, the Islamic Center of Inland Empire called, offering the position of Imam and Director. I left ICIE in 2015 to open Middle Ground. You can read more about what Middle Ground is there, but to say the least, it's been a life-changing experience that's still unfolding.