Islamic Sharia Council
The Islamic Sharia Council in London (Islamic Sharia Council) is founded in the United Kingdom in the middle of the year 1982 on regional competent arbitration service for citizens and immigrants with an emphasis in family law of Sunni Islamic religious community of the United Kingdom. 2009, the Council has its headquarters in London's Leyton. The mediations that performs the Court, are not legally binding on the United Kingdom.
Self-understanding of the Council
Sharia is the religiously legitimized, immutable law of Islam. By the middle of 1982, a group of Muslim scholars and field workers met in the center of Birmingham mosque to find to the problem of alienation of many Muslims from their faith a solution. They decided to establish a Shariah Council for the United Kingdom, the relevant legal opinions referred to in Islamic law as fatwas, created for the questions of law.
Muslim organizations have often asked the legislative and executive bodies of the United Kingdom to consider aspects of Islamic law with the laws of the country, especially in family law and the particular law and status of women in Islam. The response of the United Kingdom was mostly unambiguous and clear: a country - a law.
The Council sees itself as an Islamic institution, which is to defend the interests of the Muslim community and the Muslim identity in a Christian culture environment of the United Kingdom. Other facilities include mosques, schools, universities and banks. The creation expresses the determination of the Muslims to remain permanently in the society of the West and to improve the good relations between Muslim immigrants and non-Muslim citizens and enrich.
Regional representatives of the Sharia Council
- Birmingham: Khurram Bashir
- Bradford: Hafiz Abdul A'la, Abdus Samad Aref, Jamal Uddin Khan
- Glasgow: Tufail Hasan Shah, Maulana M Idris
- Halifax: Abdul Razzaq Masood
- Ireland ( Dublin): Yahya M Al- Hussein
- Leeds: Hafiz M Aslam
- Lancashire: Maulana Habibur Rahman
- London: Maulana Abu Sayeed (President), Suhaib Hasan ( Secretary ), Maulana Shafiq ur Rahman, Mufti Barakatullah, Mohammed Abdulle Hassan, Sheikh Haitham Al- Haddad
- Manchester: Abu Abdullah Kahlan, Hafiz Hameed ur Rehman
- Yorkshire: Maulana Sanaullah
- Netherlands: Saoed Khadje
- Oxford: Jamil Ahmed
- Wales: Allama Nishter
- Petersburg: not yet occupied
- Rotterdam: Qari Mohammed Hameeduddin