His Excellency Dr. Akram Lal Al-Din, Executive Director of the International Academy for Shariah Research in Islamic Finance in Malaysia (ISRA), visited on Monday 17 Ramadan 1443H corresponding to 18 April 2023G, the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy (IIFA) in Jeddah. He was received by Prof. Koutoub Moustapha Sano, Secretary General of the Academy.

His Excellency started the meeting by welcoming his guest and thanking him for the kind visit, which confirms the depth and solidity of relations of cooperation, coordination and communication between the Academy and ISRA. He also stressed the importance of initiating the implementation of the terms of the strategic cooperation agreement linking the two parties in order to achieve the goals set through it. Then His Excellency presented to his guest a brief summary of the Academy’s vision, mission, objectives, five-year strategic plan, and the various activities and programs of the Academy, pointing out that the Academy will host in the coming weeks a specialized symposium on stunning poultry and animals in Islam, and on this occasion he invited ISRA to participate in it in order to enrich the content on the one hand and spread the benefit within the OIC member states on the other.

For his part, His Excellency Dr. Akram Lal Al-Din, the Executive Director of ISRA, thanked His Excellency the Secretary General of the Academy for the warm reception. He also expressed his personal pride and ISRA’s great pride in the fruitful relations of cooperation with the Academy and the importance of benefiting from the capabilities and expertise of both parties in all areas of common interest. In this context, the Academy’s guest presented an official invitation to His Excellency the Secretary General to participate in the symposium that ISRA will organize next June in London on Islamic finance. His Excellency also presented a new project that ISRA is working on about including the intentional dimension in the various products of the Islamic financial industry, and the need to take into account the consequences of actions. His Excellency the Secretary General welcomed this ambitious project and assured His Excellency the Academy’s readiness to provide intellectual and Shariah support for the success of this project and its becoming a tangible reality, enhancing the performance of the Islamic financial industry, and achieving the goals of the Islamic economy represented in achieving sustainable development and comprehensive welfare for all members of society.

The meeting was attended from the Academy side by Mr. Mohamed Al-Mondher El-Chouk, Director of Cabinet and Protocol Affairs Department, Dr. Abdel Qahir Qamar, Director of Research and Studies Department, Dr. Abdel Fattah Mahmoud Abnauf, Director of International Cooperation and Planning Department, Ms. Sarah Amjad Hussein, Director of Family and Women’s Affairs Department, and Mr. Mourad TLiLi, Advisor to the Secretary General for Media and Public Relations.