Waqf Fund of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy

The availability of the necessary funding –in terms of quantity, quality and time– remains a fundamental factor because the implementation of Academy’s activities and programs and the achievement of its objectives depend on the availability of a permanent resource to cover the budget necessary for the timely implementation of the activities and programs.

Although the International Islamic Fiqh Academy has enjoyed, since its inception four decades ago, the support of the OIC Member states through their mandatory contributions to its annual budget, the Secretariat General of the Academy seizes this opportunity to appeal to the honorable Member States to increase their fixed mandatory contributions to finance this Strategic Plan. The Academy also seizes this opportunity to appeal to governments, organizations, foundations and individual donors all over the world to make donations and grants in cash and in kind to the Waqf Fund of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy which was established by the Ministerial Council of OIC Foreign Ministers at its Forty-Fourth Session in Abidjan, Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, in 2017, by virtue of Decree No.44/6F, to make it the permanent resource whose income and proceeds are devoted regularly to the activities and programs of the Academy.

The Academy Waqf Fund was established by the Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to receive all types of donations and grants in cash and in kind from States, organizations, foundations and individual donors. The Waqf Fund is supervised by a Board of Trustees chaired by His Excellency Hissein Brahim Taha, Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. It is also composed of the following members:

  • His Excellency Sheikh Dr. Saleh bin Abdullah bin Humaid, Advisor to the Saudi Royal Court, Member of the Council of Senior Scholars, Imam Khatib at the Grand Mosque of Makkah, and President of the Academy.
  • His Excellency Prof. Koutoub Moustapha Sano, Secretary General of the Academy.
  • His Excellency Dr. Muhammad Sulaiman Al Jasser, President of the Islamic Development Bank in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • His Excellency Sheikh Dr. Abdullah bin Muhammad Al-Mutlaq, Advisor to the Saudi Royal Court, Member of the Council of Senior Scholars in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • His Excellency Sheikh Dr. Saad bin Nasser Al-Shathri, Advisor to the Saudi Royal Court, Member of the Council of Senior Scholars in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • His Excellency Sheikh Dr. Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al-Haddad, Grand Mufti of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
  • His Eminence Prof. Abdullah Mabrouk Al-Najjar, Member of the Islamic Research Academy of Al-Azhar University, Arab Republic of Egypt.
  • His Eminence Prof. Yusuf bin Abdullah Al-Shubaily, Professor at the Higher Judicial Institute of Imam Muhammad bin Saud University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • His Eminence Dr. Sami Suwailem, Acting Director of the Islamic Development Bank’s Islamic Research and Training Institute.

The Supervisory Board, which is responsible for overseeing the Academy’s Waqf Fund, is composed of the following members:

  • His Excellency Sheikh Dr. Saleh bin Abdullah bin Humaid, Advisor to the Saudi Royal Court, Member of the Council of Senior Scholars, Imam Khatib at the Grand Mosque of Makkah, and President of the Academy.
  • His Excellency Dr. Muhammad Sulaiman Al Jasser, Honorary President of the Islamic Development Bank in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • His Excellency Prof. Koutoub Moustapha Sano, Secretary General of the Academy.
  • His Eminence Dr. Youssef Hassan Khalawi, Secretary General of the Islamic Chamber of Industry and Commerce in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • His Eminence Dr. Abdulrahman bin Saleh Al-Atram, Chairman of the Shariah Board of Inma Bank in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • His Eminence Dr. Omar Zuhair Hafez, former Secretary General of the General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions.

Finally, the Secretariat General of the Academy looks forward to the Secretariats General of Awqaf and Waqf institutions supporting the Academy Waqf Fund. Besides, the Secretariat General of the Academy looks forward to entering into strategic partnerships and cooperation agreements with States, governments, organizations, and foundations wishing to participate in the funding and planning of the Strategic Plan’s activities and programs within and outside the Muslim world.

May Allah reward all those who have contributed in any way to making this plan a factual reality and an achievable aspiration, with the permission of the Most High, the Almighty.