H.E. Prof. Koutoub Moustapha Sano, Secretary-General of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy, chaired the fifty-third periodic meeting of heads of divisions heads, on Thursday 02 Jumada al-Akhirah, 1445, corresponding to November 16, 2023, at the Secretariat General in Jeddah.

His Excellency welcomed the heads of divisions, and spoke about the preparations for the specialized symposium entitled: “The Family Foundation: Challenges and Prospects,” which is schedule for the 5th February 2024. His Excellency instructed to issue flight tickets for participants, including researchers, and called on everyone for continuous cooperation and coordination between departments to ensure its proper organization and success.

The participants then discussed the items on the meeting’s agenda, and resulted in new decisions, namely:

• Sending the biographical dictionary of the Academy’s members to the printing press to typeset it and prepare it for printing.
• Working on the Encyclopedia of Muslim Women, which includes biographies of prominent Muslim women in scientific, medical and other fields throughout history.
• Summarizing Zayed Fiqh Encyclopedia (limiting it to the most important maxims and most prominent applications) in two or three volumes.