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2 unusual facts about Zaki Badawi


Zaki Badawi

He participated in negotiations with the Bank of England to establish the first Islamic financial institution licensed in the United Kingdom, the Islamic Finance House (IFH).

He often contributed to daily newspapers, and he published and lectured on a wide range of issues, including various conflicts, Islam in Britain, Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses, female genital cutting, democracy, the rights of the fetus, and human rights.


European Council for Fatwa and Research

Its fatwas often rely on the four classical Islamic law schools (four schools of Fiqh), as well as all other schools of the people of Islamic law (Fiqh) knowledge, although with exclusion of modernist Islamic scholars in Europe as French ex-great-imam from Marseille, Soheib Bencheikh and Zaki Badawi, president of the London-based Muslim College and a keen promotor of interfaith dialogue (among other publishing regularly together with the Archbishop of York and the British Chief Rabbi).


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