List of the signatories at the International Islamic Conference

Amman, 27-29 Jumada 11426 ah / 4-6 July 2005 ce

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF AFGHANISTAN

1. H.E. Amb. Nusair Ahmad Nour
   Afghani Ambassador to the State of Qatar Islamic Envoy of the Government of Afghanistan

PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ALGERIA

1. H.E. Lakhdar Ibrahimi
   Special Envoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations; Former Foreign Minister of Algeria
2. Prof. Dr. Abd Allah bin al-Hajj Muhammad Al Ghulam Allah
   Minister of Religious Affairs
3. Dr. Mustafa Sharif
   Minister of Higher Education and Former Algerian Ambassador in Cairo
4. Dr. Sa’id Shayban
   Former Minister of Religious Affairs
5. Prof. Dr. Ammar Al-Talibi
   Department of Philosophy, University of Algeria
6. Mr. Abu Jara Al-Sultani
   Head of the Algerian Peace Society Movement

AUSTRIA

1. Prof. Anas Al-Shaqfa
   Head of the Islamic Commission
2. Mr. Tarafa Baghajati
   Initiative of Austrian Muslims

AUSTRALIA

1. Sheikh Salim ‘Ulwan al-Hassani
   Secretary General, Darulfatwa, Islamic High Council

REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN

1. Sheikh Al-Islam Allah-Shakur bin Hemmat Bashazada
   Head of the Muslim Administration of the Caucasus

KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

1. Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Ali Al-Sutri
   Minister of Justice
2. Dr. Farid bin Ya’qub Al-Miftah
   Undersecretary of the Ministry for Islamic Affairs

PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH

1. Prof. Dr. Abu Al-Hasan Sadiq
   President of the Asian University of Bangladesh

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

1. Prof. Dr. Sheikh Mustafa Ceric
   Head of the ‘Ulama’ and Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina
2. Prof. Hasan Makic
   Mufti of Bihac
3. Prof. Anes Ljevakovic
   Researcher and Lecturer, Islamic Studies College

BRAZIL

1. Sheikh Ali Muhmmad Abduni
   Representative of the International Islamic Youth Club in Latin America; Accredited Religious Representative of the Dar Al-Fatwa of the Republic of Lebanon in Sao Paolo

CANADA

1. Sheikh Faraz Rabbani
   Lecturer, Hanafi jurisprudence, Sunnipath.com

REPUBLIC OF CHAD

1. Sheikh Dr. Hussein Hasan Abkar
   President, Higher Council for Islamic Affair; Imam of Muslims, Chad

ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT

1. Prof. Dr. Mahmud Hamdi Zaqzuq
   Minister of Religious Affairs
2. Prof. Dr. Ali Jumu’a
   Grand Mufti of the Arab Republic of Egypt
3. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Muhammad Al-Tayyib
   President of Al-Azhar University
4. Prof. Dr. Kamal Abu Al-Majd
   Islamic Intellectual; Former Minister of Information;
   Attorney in the Court of Cassation and International Specialist in Judiciary Affairs
5. Dr. Muhammad Al-Ahmadi Abu Al-Nur
   Former Minister of Religious Affairs in the Arab Republic of Egypt; Professor in the Faculty of Islamic Law, Yarmouk University, Jordan
6. Prof. Dr. Fawzi Al-Zifzaf
   Chairman of the Permanent Committee ofNoble Al-Azhar for Dialogue Among the Heavenly Religions; Member of the Academy of Islamic Research
7. Prof. Dr. Hasan Hanafi
   Researcher and Islamic Intellectual, Department of Philosophy, CairoUniversity;
   Fellow of the Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought
8. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Al-Kahlawi
   Secretary of the General Union of Islamic Archaeologists;
   Dean of the Faculty of Antiquities, Fayyum Branch, Cairo University
9. Prof. Dr. Ayman Fuad Sayyid
   Former Secretary General, Dar al-Kutub Al-Misriyya
10. Sheikh Dr. Zaghlul Najjar
    Head of the Committee on The Miraculous Nature of the Qur’an in the Higher Council for Islamic Affairs, Egypt
11. Sheikh Moez Masood
    Islamic Missionary
12. Dr. Raged al-Sirjani
13. Dr. Muhammad Hidaya

REPUBLIC OF FRANCE

1. Sheikh Prof. Dalil Abu Bakr
   Chairman of the France Supreme Council of the Islamic Religion and Dean of the Paris Mosque
2. Dr. Husayn Rais
   Director of Cultural Affairs, Paris Grand Mosque

REPUBLIC OF GERMANY

1. Prof. Dr. Murad Hofmann
   Former German Ambassador to Morocco; Intellectual and Researcher
2. Sheikh Salah Al-Din Al- Ja’farawi
   Assistant Secretary-General of World Council for Islamic Propagation

REPUBLIC OF INDIA

1. H.E. Maulana Mahmood Madani
   Member of Parliament
   General Secretary, Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind; Deoband Seminary
2. Prince Ja’far Al-Sadiq Mufaddal Sayf Al-Din
   Islamic Intellectual
3. Prince Taha Sayf Al-Din
   Islamic Intellectual
4. Prof. Dr. Sayyid Awsaf Ali
   President of Hamdard University
5. Prof. Dr. Akhtar Al-Wasi
   Head of the Bureau of Islamic Studies, Dean of the College of Humanities and Languages; Director of the Dhakir Husayn Centre for Islamic Studies

REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA

1. Dr. Tutty Alawiyah
   President, Al-Shafi’iIslamic University
2. Amb. Rabhan Abd Al-Wahhab
   Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
3. Sheikh Al-Hajj Ahmad Hashim Mazadi
   Chairman of the Central Board ofNahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia
4. Sheikh Rozy Munir
   Vice-Chairman of the Central Board ofNahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia
5. Mr. Muhamad Iqbal Sullam
   International Conference of Islamic Scholars, Indonesia

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

1. Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Muhammad Ali Al-Taskhiri
   Secretary General, Forum for the Proximity of the Islamic Schools of Jurisprudence.
2. Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Waezzadeh Al-Khorasani
   Former Secretary General, Forum for the Proximity of the Islamic Schools of Jurisprudence
3. Grand Ayatollah Prof. Dr. Al-Sayyid Mustafa Mohaghegh Damad
   Director of the Academy of Sciences; Justice in the Ministry of Justice; Head of the Inspectorate General
4. Hujjat Al-Islam Dr. Mahmoud Mohammadi Iraqi
   Chairman, Cultural League and Islamic Relations in the Islamic Republic of Iran
5. Dr. Al-Sayyid Mahmoud Mar’ashi Al-Najafi
   Head of the Grand Ayatollah Mar’ashi Al-Najafi Library
6. Dr. Muhammad Ali Adharshah
   Secretary-General, Arab-Iranian Friendship Society
7. Mr. Murtada Hashim Bur Qadi
   Secretary-General, Bureau for International Relations, Great Islamic Encyclopaedia
8. Sheikh Abbas Ali Sulaymani
   Representative of the Supreme Spiritual Leader in Eastern Iran
9. Mr. Ghulam Rida Mirzai
   Member, Consultative Council
10. Dr. Syed Muhammad Rida Khatimi
    Political leader; Former Deputy Speaker of the Iranian Parliament
11. Sheikh Muhammad Shari’ati
    Former Advisor to the President of Iran; Member of Parliament
12. Mr. Shams Al-Waithin
    Journalist and Writer

REPUBLIC OF IRAQ

1. Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Husayn Al-Mu’ayyad
   Knowledge Forum, Baghdad
2. Grand Ayatollah Ahmad al-Bahadili
   Islamic Missionary
3. Dr. Ahmad Abd Al-Ghaffur Al-Samara’i
   Head of the Diwan of the Sunni Waqf
4. Al-Sayyid Abd Al-Sahib Al-Khoei
   Secretary General, Imam Al-Khoei Benevolent Foundation
5. Al-Sayyid Muhammad Al-Musawi
   Secretary General, World Islamic Ahl Al-Bayt League
6. Prof. Dr. Abd Al-Aziz Al-Duri
   Researcher and Historian, Department of History, University of Jordan; Fellow of Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought
7. Prof. Dr. Bashshar Awwad Marouf
   Researcher and Editor; Fellow of Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought
8. Sheikh Abbas Ali Kashif Al-Ghita
   College of Islamic Studies, University of al-Kufa
9. Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-Najdi
   Islamic Intellectual
10. Sheikh Walid Faraj Allah Al-Asadi
    College of Islamic Studies, University of al-Kufa
11. Sheikh Prof. Dr. Ahmad Al-Kubaysi
    Missionary and Islamic Intellectual
12. Prof. Ghanem Jawad
    Director of Cultural Affairs, Khoei Benevolent Foundation
13. Mr. Muhammad Allawi
    Assistant Director General, World Islamic Ahl Al-Bayt League
14. Prof. Sa’d Al-Malla
    Islamic Intellectual
15. Dr. Mustafa Abd Al-Ilah Kamal Al-Din
    Islamic Intellectual

ITALY

1. Mr. Yahya Sergio Pallavicini
   Vice President, Islamic Religious Community of Italy (CO.RE.IS.)

HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN

1. Prof. Dr. HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad
   Personal Envoy and Special Advisor to HM King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought
2. Sheikh Izzedine Al-Khatib Al-Tamimi
   Islamic Affairs Advisor to HM the King; Chief Justice
3. Prof. Dr. Abdul-Salam Al-Abbadi
   Former Minister of Islamic Affairs; President, Aal al-Bayt University
4. Prof. Dr. Sheikh Ahmad Hlayyel
   Advisor to HM the King and Imam of the Royal Court
5. Sheikh Said Al-Hijjawi
   Grand Mufti of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
6. Mr. Akel Bultaji
   Advisor to HM the King
7. Prof. Dr. Khalid Touqan
   Minister of Education; Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research
8. H.E. Sheikh Salim Falahat
   Director General of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan
9. H.E. Sheikh Dr. Abd Al-Aziz Khayyat
   Former Minister of Religious Affairs
10. Sheikh Nuh Al-Quda
    Former Mufti of the Jordanian Armed Forces
11. Prof. Dr. Khalid Al-Karaki
    Deputy-Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Aal al-Bayt
    Institute for Islamic Thought; President of Jerash Private University
12. Prof. Dr. Ishaq Al-Farhan
    President of Zarqa Private University; Former Minister of Education
13. Prof. Kamil Al-Sharif
    Secretary General, International Council forIslamic Propagation and Relief
14. Dr. Abd Al-Latif Arabiyyat
    Former Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament;
    Chairman of the Consultative Committee of the Islamic Action Front
15. Sheikh Abd Al-Karim Salim Sulayman Al-Khasawneh
    Grand Mufti of the Jordanian Armed Forces
16. Prof. Dr. Adel Al-Toweisi
    Former President of Aal al-Bayt University; Minister of Culture
17. Prof. Dr. Yusuf Al-Ghaydhan
    Dean of the University Faculty of Religion, Balqa’ Applied University
18. Sheikh Hasan Al-Saqqaf
    Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Aal al-Bayt
    Institute for Islamic Thought;
    Director of Imam Al-Nawawi Publishers and Distributors
19. Eng. Marwan Al-Faouri
    Chairman of the Forum for Moderation in Thought and Culture
20. Mrs. Nawal Al-Faouri
    Educator and Islamic Intellectual
21. Prof. Dr. Abd Al-Nasir Abu Al-Basal
    Former Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Law, Yarmouk University
22. Mr. Bilal Al-Tall
    Editor-in-Chief Liwa’Newspaper
23. Prof. Dr. Azmi Taha Al-Sayyid
    College of Jurisprudential and Legal Studies, Aal al-Bayt University
24. Dr. Rahid Sa’id Shahwan
    Faculty of Religion, Balqa Applied University

STATE OF KUWAIT

1. Prof. Dr. Abdullah Yusuf Al-Ghoneim
   Head of the Kuwaiti Centre for Research and Study
2. Dr. Adel Abdullah Al-Fallah
   Undersecretary of the Ministry of Religious Affairs

REPUBLIC OF LEBANON

1. Prof. Dr. Hisham Nashabeh
   Chairman of the Board of Higher Education; Dean of Education at Makassed Association
2. Prof. Dr. Sayyid Hani Fahs
   Member of the Higher Shi’i Council
3. Sheikh Abdullah al-Harari
   Head of the Habashi Order
4. Mr. Husam Mustafa Qaraqi
   Habashi Order
5. Prof. Dr. Ridwan Al-Sayyid
   Faculty of Humanities, Lebanese University; Editor-in-Chief, Al-Ijtihad Magazine
6. Prof. Muhammad Al-Sammak
   Secretary-General of the National Council for Islamic-Christian Dialogue; Secretary-General for the Islamic Spiritual Summit
7. Ja’fari Qadi Sheikh Asad Allah Al-Harashi
   Higher Islamic Shi’i Council
8. Sheikh Khalil Al-Mays
   Mufti of Zahleh and Western Beqa’
9. Sheikh Abd Al-Emir Qublan
   Deputy Head of the Higher Shi’i Council
10. Sheikh Jamil Muhammad Husseini
    Head of the Society of Sufi Sheikhs
11. Sheikh Hasan Farhat

GREAT SOCIALIST PEOPLE’S LYBIAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA

1. Prof. Ibrahim Al-Rabu
   Secretary of the Office of Conferences, International Islamic Propagation Society
2. Dr. Al-Ujaili Farhat Al-Miri
   Official for Dialogue in the International Islamic Popular Leadership

MALAYSIA

1. Dato’ Dr. Abdul Hamid Othman
   Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister
2. Anwar Ibrahim
   Former Deputy Prime Minister
3. Prof. Dr. Muhamad Hashem Kamaly
   Dean of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation
4. Mr. Shahidan Kasem
   First Minister ofPerlis State, Malaysia
5. Mr. Khayri Jamal Al-Din
   Deputy Chairmanfor the Youth Sector, the United Malays National Organisation

MALDIVES

1. Dr. Mahmud Al-Shawqi
   Minister of Education

MAURITIUS

1. Sheikh Ghulam Muhammad
   Chairman and Secretary General of the Blue Crescent Society

KINGDOM OF MOROCCO

1. Prof. Dr. Abbas Al-Jarari
   Advisor to HM the King
2. Prof. Dr. Abd Al-Hadi BuTalib
   Former Advisor to HM the King
3. Prof. Dr. Abdelhadi Al-Tazi
   Fellow of the Royal Moroccan Academy; Former Ambassador
4. Prof. Dr. Mohammad Farouk Al-Nabhan
   Former Director of Dar Al-Hadith Al-Hasaniyya
5. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Shawqi Benbin
   Director of the Hasaniyya Library
6. Prof. Dr. Najat Al-Marini
   Department of Arabic Language, Mohammed V University
7. Dr. Abdul-Filali Ansary
   Director, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilization, Ag a Khan University

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

1. H.H. Prince Haji Ado Bayero
   Emir ofKano
2. Mr. Sulayman Osho
   Secretary General of the Islamic Conference for Africa

SULTANATE OF OMAN

1. Sheikh Ahmad bin Hamad Al-Khalili
   Grand Mufti of the Sultanate of Oman
2. Sheikh Ahmad bin Sa’ud Al-Siyabi
   General Secretary in the Office of the Grand Mufti

REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN

1. Prof. Dr. Zafar Ishaq Ansari
   Director General, Centre for Islamic Research, Islamabad
2. Dr. Reza Shah-Kazemi
   Researcher and Islamic Intellectual
3. H.E. Ambassador Arif Kamal
   Islamic Intellectual; Ambassador of the Republic of Pakistan to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
4. H.E. Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Ahmad Ghazi
   President, Islamic University, Islamabad; Former Minister of Religious Affairs, Pakistan
5. Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri
   Director General, Centre for Islamic Research, Islamabad

STATE OF PALESTINE

1. Sheikh Dr. Ikrimah Sabri
   Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and All of Palestine; Imam of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque
2. Sheikh Taysir Raj ab Al-Tamimi
   Chief Justice of Palestine

PORTUGAL

1. Mr. Abdool Magid Vakil
   Chairman, Banco Efisa
2. Mr. Sohail Nakhooda
   Editor-in-Chief, Islamica Magazine

QATAR

1. Prof. Dr. Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
   Director of the Sunna and Sira Council
   President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars
2. Prof. Dr. Aisha Al-Mana’i
   Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Law, University of Qatar

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

1. Sheikh Rawi Ayn Al-Din
   Head of the Muslim Religious Administration
2. Prof. Dr. Said Hibatullah Kamilev
   Director, Moscow Institute of Islamic Civilisation
3. Dr. Murad Murtazein
   President, Islamic University, Moscow
4. Mr. Rushan Abassoof
   Director of External Affairs Department of Council of Muftis, Russia

KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA

1. Dr. Abd Al-Aziz bin Uthman Al-Touaijiri
   Director General, The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO)
2. Sheikh al-Habib Muhammad bin Abdurrahman al-Saqqaf

REPUBLIC OF SENEGAL

1. Mr. Al-Hajj Mustafa Sisi
   Special Advisor to the President of Senegal
2. Prof. Abdallah Bah
   President of the Union ofVolunteers in Islamic Education and Culture

REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE

1. Dr. Yaqub Ibrahim
   Minister of the Environment and Water Resources, and Muslim Affairs

REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

1. Sheikh Ibrahim Gabriels
   Head of South African ‘Ulama’

REPUBLIC OF SUDAN

1. Abd Al-Rahman Sawar Al-Dhahab
   Former President of the Republic of Sudan
2. Dr. Isam Ahmad Al-Bashir
   Minister of Guidance and Religious Affairs
3. Prof. Dr. Izz al-Din Umar Musa
   Lecturer in the Department of History, Malik Saud University, Riyadh

SWITZERLAND

1. Prof. Tariq Ramadan
   Islamic Intellectual

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC

1. Dr. Muhammad Sa’id Ramadan Al-Buti
   Islamic Missionary and Thinker
2. Prof. Dr. Sheikh Wahba Mustafa Al-Zuhayli
   Head of Department of Islamic Jurisprudence and its Schools, Islamic Law Faculty, Damascus University
3. Dr. Salah Al-Din Ahmad Kuftaro
   Director General, Sheikh Ahmad Kuftaro Academy and Islamic Intellectual
4. Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Badr Hasoun
   Grand Mufti of the Syrian Arab Republic
5. Dr. Muhammad Tawfiq Sa’id Al-Buti
   Professor of Shari’ah at Damascus University

THAILAND

1. Mr. Wan Muhammad Nur Matha
   Advisor to the Prime Minister
2. Amb. Wiboon Khusakul
   Ambassador of Thailand in Baghdad

REPUBLIC OF TUNISIA

1. Prof. Dr. Al-Hadi Al-Bakkoush
   Former Prime Minister of Tunisia
2. Dr. Abu Baker Al-Akhzuri
   Minister of Religious Affairs
3. Prof. Dr. Ali Al-Shabi
   Chairman of the Higher Islamic Council; Former Minister of Islamic Affairs
4. Prof. Habib Shaybub
   Writer and Historian
5. Dr. Amir Al-Zamali
   Advisor of Islamic World Affairs; International Committee for the Red Cross

REPUBLIC OF TURKEY

1. Prof. Dr. Ekmeleddin Ilisanoghi
   Secretary-General, Organisation of the Islamic Conference
2. Prof. Dr. Ali Auzak
   Head of the Endowment for Islamic Scientific Studies, Istanbul
3. Prof. Dr. Mualla Saljuq
   Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Law, Ankara
4. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Qagnci
   Grand Mufti of Istanbul and Professor of Islamic Philosophy
5. Prof. Ibrahim Kafi Donmez
   Professor of Islamic Jurisprudence at the University of Marmara

UKRAINE

1. Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Tamim
   Mufti of Ukraine

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

1. Mr. Ali bin Al-Sayyid Abd Al-Rahman Al-Hashim
   Advisor to the President for Judiciary and Religious Affairs
2. Sheikh Muhammad Al-Banani
   Judge in the Supreme Federal Court
3. Dr. Abd al-Salam Muhammad Darwish al-Marzuqi
   Judge in the Dubai Court

UNITED KINGDOM

1. Sheikh Abdal Hakim Murad / Tim Winter
   Lecturer, University of Cambridge
2. Sheikh YusufIslam
   Islamic Missionary and singer
3. Dr. Abbas Mahajarani
   Member of the Imam Al-Khoei Benevolent Foundation
4. Dr.Fuad Nahdi
   Editor-in-Chief, Q-News International
5. Mr. Shams Vellani
   Director, Special Studies, The Institute of Ismaili Studies
6. Dr. Farhad Daftary
   Associate Director, The Institute of Ismaili Studies
7. Sami Yusuf
   Islamic Singer

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

1. H.E. Prof. Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr
   Author and Professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University
2. Sheikh Hamza Yusuf
   President of the Zaytuna Institute
3. Sheikh Faisal Abdur Rauf
   Imam of New York City Central Mosque
4. Prof. Dr. Ingrid Mattson
   Professor of Islamic Studies, Hartford Seminary; President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
5. Prof. Dr. Suleiman Abdullah Schleifer
   Director Emeritus oftheAdham Center for Television Journalism
6. Sheikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller
   Islamic Missionary and Intellectual; Fellow of the Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought
7. Mr.Nihad Awad
   Executive Director, Council on American-Islamic Relations
8. Prof. James W. Morris
   University of Exeter
9. Sheikh Abdullah Adhami
   Islamic Missionary and Scholar
10. Prof. Joseph Lumbard
    Former Special Assistant to H.M. King Abdullah II for Interfaith Affairs

REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

1. Sheikh Muhammad Al-Sadiq Muhammad Yusuf
   Grand Mufti of the Republic
2. Prof. Yusufov Ortoqbek
   Islamic Intellectual

REPUBLIC OF YEMEN

1. Sheikh Ibrahim bin Muhammad Al-Wazir
   Secretary General of the Islamic Unification and Works Movement
2. Sheikh Habib ‘Umar bin Muhammad bin Salim bin Hafiz
   Principal, Dar al-Mustafa, Tarim
3. Sheikh Al-Habib Al-Jifri
   Islamic Missionary and Intellectual
4. Prof. Dr. Husayn Al-Umari
   Member of the Consultative Committee, Member of the UNESCO Executive Committee; Professor of Modern History, University of Sana’a’