Located in East London, just three hundred yards from Europe’s largest mosque complex, Ebrahim College—or EC—is establishing itself as a center of Islamic education in the West. EC’s central educational unit, the ’Alimiyyah program, trains men and women to become future “homegrown” Imams and ’alims who will serve the wider British Muslim community. EC’s slogan is “Seeking Knowledge: A Lifestyle Choice.” This paper examines the role of knowledge in constituting virtue within the pedagogical theory and practice of EC. According to my interlocutors at EC—where I conducted 18 months of fieldwork—virtue is living and being in accordance with that which one knows, and virtue alone creates harmony of the soul. I explore the manner in which knowledge-as-correct-action is constitutive of the virtuous Muslim subject, and also how notions of Islamic virtue come into conflict with modern, subjectivized notions of “right” and “wrong.” Drawing upon Alisadair McIntyre’s writings on virtue in the modern West, and how the absence of an overarching metaphysics creates fragmentary notions of “ethics” within the West, I argue that the Islamic model drawn upon by Ebrahim College, with its commitment to a metaphysics of certainty rooted in revelation, comes into conflict in a western milieu. The manner in which these (seemingly) divergent orders converse gives rise to what I call “apophatic virtue”: an articulation of one’s moral superiority (in mainstream western discourse vis-à-vis Muslims as well as within streams of Muslim discourse regarding “western norms”) by way of negation.