Shaykh Abdulrahman Cherri was born in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts with a focus on economics. He traveled to Qom in order to pursue his studies at the Seminary in 2015. His Hawza studies are still continuing while he is simultaneously serving various communities in North America through lecturing and teaching. He is also a PhD candidate at the University of Münster in Germany in the department of Islamic Theology.