H.E. Prof. Koutoub Mustafa Sano, Secretary-General of the Academy, held on Sunday 19 Jamada al-Akhira 1442, corresponding to 1 February 2021, the 17th periodic meeting of the directors of the Academy’s departments. His Excellency opened the meeting by thanking the publications and dedication committee members for their esteemed efforts in inventorying and arranging the contents of the main warehouse located at Quraysh Street in Jeddah and for meeting the deadlines of this task.
Furthermore, His Excellency requested the conferences and seminars department to prepare a letter of thanks and appreciation to the honourable jurists and experts who participated in the first scientific forum held recently on the strengthening of partnership and cooperation relations between the Academy and the heads, secretaries, and members of Shariah councils and committees of Islamic banks and financial institutions in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
His Excellency also requested the publications and dedication committee to send a copy of the fourth edition of the Academy’s resolutions and recommendations together with a draft final declaration and recommendations of the forum before its approval and publication.
The meeting resulted in the following decisions:
- Accelerate the rehabilitation of the Academy’s main warehouse located on Quraysh street by installing the necessary lighting and maintenance.
- To follow-up serious correspondence with the members and experts of the Academy regarding the nomination of institutions or individuals capable of translating the fourth edition of the book of resolutions and recommendations of the Academy into the most important regional languages prevailing in the OIC Member States such as Hausa, Mandigo, Malay, Farsi, Urdu, Russian.
- To start developing an integrated conceptualization of the dates of the scientific forums between the Academy and the Shariah councils and committees in East, Southeast Asia, North, South and West Africa, as well as the Central Banks of the OIC Member states, meanwhile the next scientific forum will be held between the Academy and the Shariah councils and committees of the Central Banks within the OIC Member States during coming March.
- To continue the regular cyclical updating of the Academy’s website by updating its content and presenting it in an interesting and fine manner.
- The need to complete the printing of the Five-Year Strategic Plan, as well as the translation and printing of the Academy’s Statute, Internal and Executive Regulations by the mid of this month, with Strategic Plan’s contents to start implementation by early March for the latest.
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