Islamic World Congress

The Islamic World Congress ( English World Muslim Congress - WMC ; Arabic مؤتمر العالم الإسلامي, DMG Muʾtamar al-ʿĀlam al-Islāmī , abbr. MAI ) is an Islamic organization based in Karachi . It has offices in Geneva , Jeddah and Vienna and its current president is Abdullah bin Omer Naseef .

Its co-founder and general secretary for more than four decades was Inamullah Khan (1912–1997). The World Islamic Congress was the recipient of the Niwano Peace Prize in 1987 and Inamullah Khan was the recipient of the Templeton Prize in 1988 .

history

The organization was founded in Karachi in 1949 , after the founding of Pakistan in 1947 . Mohammed Amin al-Husseini , the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem , presided over the conference and was elected President of the Congress.

The roots of the congress, officially founded in 1949, go back to a congress organized by Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud in Mecca in 1926 , shortly after Ibn Saud's occupation of Mecca and Medina ; the latter hoped to have his administration of the holy places sanctioned by Islam, instead this provoked a lot of criticism that prevented him from being called again. Mohammed Amin al-Husseini was also a leading figure at this congress.

According to Hussein Haqqani , the 1949 World Muslim Conference sponsored by the Pakistani government to promote pan-Islamism and chaired by the Palestinian Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini led to the formation of the World Muslim Congress, which has since played an essential role in the creation of a Muslim The “victim mentality” plays, which has shaped the global Islamist movement in the following.

According to a received protocol, Said Ramadan appeared in Munich in 1958 as "General Secretary" of the Islamic World Congress in front of the mosque construction commission for the Freimann Mosque and donated 1000 DM on behalf of the organization  .

Little chronology

• 1926 1st Congress chaired by Saudi Arabia's King Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud in Mecca
• 1931 2nd Congress in Jerusalem (see main article General Islamic Congress 1931 ) at which the Palestinian Grand Mufti Mohammed Amin al-Husseini is elected as the first chairman
• 1949 3rd Congress in Karachi , Pakistan
• 1951 4th Congress also in Karachi , Pakistan
• 1962 5th Congress in Baghdad
• Late 1964 / early 1965 6th Congress in Mogadishu , Somalia
• March 1980 7th Congress in Djibouti , Djibouti
• June 1981 8th Congress, Famagusta , Cyprus
• 1988 9th Congress in Karachi , Pakistan

See also

• Islamic General Congress of Jerusalem (MIAQ)
• Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Web links

• motamaralalamalislami.org: World Muslim Congress
• unic.org.pk: World Muslim Congress

References and footnotes

1. ↑ unic.org.pk
2. ^ ^{A b} World Muslim Congress, History
3. ^ New York Times , April 19, 1988, Anti-Semitism Charges Lead To Delay on Religion Prize
4. ^ ^{A b} Husain Haqqani (2005), May 19, 2005, The Ideologies of South Asian Jihadi Groups , Current Trends in Islamist Ideology , vol. 1
5. ^ Martin Kramer, " Muslim Congresses ", The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
6. ↑ See. The definition on the side of the Federal Agency for Civic Education under bpb.de .
7. ^ Stefan Meining : A mosque in Germany. Nazis, Secret Services, and the Rise of Political Islam in the West. CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61411-8 , p. 112, with reference to Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv , Sign. Laflü 1900: December 22, 1958, "Protocol No. 5: Session of the 'Dini Idare' broader base. " Spiritual administration of the Muslim refugees