Sejad Mekic

Hafiz Sejad Mekić (* 1982 in Kaćuni , Busovača ) is an Islamic clergyman and legal scholar from Bosnia who has Bosnian and British citizenship. He is the Chairman of the Cambridge Muslim Council and has been the Friday imam of Mawson Road Mosque ( Cambridge Mosque ), the main mosque in Cambridge , England, for about ten years .

He first completed training at the Elči Ibrahim Pascha Medrese in Travnik .

In 2006, he earned a postgraduate degree in theology and religious studies from the University of Cambridge . Previously, he received his BA from the University of Wales at Lampeter .

He worked as the imam of the Hendon Mosque in West Hendon , London .

He received his PhD on fatwas in Bosnia from the School of Oriental and African Studies , University of London .

In 2008 he was one of the delegation participants of the 2nd seminar of the Catholic-Muslim Forum .

Fonts

• SEJAD MEKIĆ. 2011. Husein Đozo and Islamic modernism in Titoist Yugoslavia: A study of the life and work of Husein Đozo (1912-1982). PhD thesis. London (SOAS).

Web links

• mizbihac.com: Bošnjak hafiz sa Kembridža - hfz. dr. Sejad ef. Mekić (Medžlis islamske zajednice Bihać)
• preporod.com: Busovača: Bosanski hafiz sa Kembridža (Preporod - islamske informativne novine, Sarajevo)
• bhuknetwork.org: Cambridge-Naš Sejad Mekić, glavni imam glavne džamije u Cambridge-u Sljedeća stanica - London 2007 (Bosnia & Herzegovina UK Network)
• bhuknetwork.org: Biografija ef. Mekića 2012 (Bosnia & Herzegovina UK Network)
• emel.com (Sejad Mekic)
• cambridgemuslimcollege.org ( Cambridge Muslim College )
• tcs.cam.ac.uk: The new Cambridge mosque will be a stunning piece of design
• medresatravnik.edu.ba: Dr. Sejad Mekić, Medresin 27. hafiz Kur'ana Časnog (Elči Ibrahim-pašina medresa u Travniku)

References and footnotes

1. ↑ mizbihac.com: Bošnjak hafiz sa Kembridža - hfz. dr. Sejad ef. Mekić  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Medžlis islamske zajednice Bihać) & preporod.com: Busovača: Bosanski hafiz sa Kembridža ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Preporod - islamske informativne novine, Sarajevo). - Deviating from this, bhuknetwork.org (Bosnia & Herzegovina UK Network) states Travnik as the place of birth.   
2. ↑ benevolencefund.org
3. ↑ cambridge-news.co.uk
4. ↑ see also mosques.muslimsinbritain.org: Abu Bakr Jamia Mosque
5. ↑ see also justgiving.com: Sejad Mekic is fundraising for Cambridge Mosque
6. ↑ see also rijaset.ba ( Islamska zajednica u Bosni i Hercegovini )
7. ↑ benevolencefund.org
8. ↑ cf. hendonmosque.co.uk & muslimsinbritain.org: Hendon Mosque and Islamic Center
9. ↑ Cambridge Mosque Newsletter, October 2012, p.2 ( Online )
10. ↑ acommonword.com: Delegations to the 'Second Catholic-Muslim Forum' ( A common word between us and you )
11. ↑ UTREES: University Theses in Russian, Soviet and East European Studies 1907-2013.