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Signatories (in Alphabetical Order)

His Royal Eminence Sultan Muhammadu Sa’ad Ababakar, The 20th Sultan of Sokoto; Leader of the Muslims of Nigeria
H.E. Shaykh Dr. Hussein Hasan Abakar Imam of the Muslims, Chad; President, Higher Council for Islamic Affairs, Chad
H.E. Prof. Dr. Abdul-Salam Al-Abbadi President of Aal Al-Bayt University; Former Minister of Religious Affairs, Jordan
Prof. Dr. Taha Abd Al-Rahman President of the Wisdom Circle for Thinkers and Researchers, Morocco; Director of Al-Umma Al-Wasat Magazine, International Union of Muslim Scholars
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Cordoba Initiative; Founder of the ASMA Society (American Society for Muslim Advancement); Imam of Masjid Al-Farah, NY, NY, USA
Sheikh Muhammad Nur Abdullah Vice President of the Fiqh Council of North America, USA
Dr. Shaykh Abd Al-Quddus Abu Salah President of the International League for Islamic Ethics; Editor of the Journal for Islamic Ethics, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
H.E. Prof. Dr. Abd Al-Wahhab bin Ibrahim Abu Solaiman Member of the Committee of Senior Ulama, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Lateef Oladimeji Adegbite Acting Secretary and Legal Adviser, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs
H.E. Amb. Prof. Dr. Akbar Ahmed Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University in Washington D.C., USA
H.E. Judge Prince Bola Ajibola Former International High Court Judge; Former Minister of Justice of Nigeria; Former Attorney-General of Nigeria; Founder of the Crescent University and Founder of the Islamic Movement of Africa (IMA)
H.E. Prof. Dr. Kamil Al-Ajlouni Head of National Centre for Diabetes; Founder of the Jordanian University of Science and Technology (JUST), Former Minister and Former Senator, Jordan
Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Salim Al-‘Awa Secretary General of the International Union of Muslim Scholars; Head of the Egyptian Association for Culture and Dialogue
Mr. Nihad Awad National Executive Director and Co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), USA
H.E. Prof. Dr. Al-Hadi Al-Bakkoush Former Prime Minister of Tunisia, Author
H.E. Shaykh Al-Islam Dr. Allah-Shakur bin Hemmat Bashazada Grand Mufti of Azerbaijan and Head of the Muslim Administration of the Caucasus
H.E. Dr. Issam El-Bashir Secretary General of the International Moderation Centre, Kuwait; Former Minister of Religious Affairs, Sudan
H.E. Prof. Dr. Allamah Shaykh Abd Allah bin Mahfuz bin Bayyah Professor, King Abdul Aziz University, Saudi Arabia; Former Minister of Justice, Former Minister of Education and Former Minister of Religious Affairs, Mauritania; Vice President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars; Founder and President, Global Center for Renewal and Guidance
Dr. Mohamed Bechari President, Federal Society for Muslims in France; General Secretary of the European Islamic Conference (EIC), France; Member of the International Fiqh Academy
Prof. Dr. Ahmad Shawqi Benbin Director of the Hasaniyya Library, Morocco
Prof. Dr. Allamah Shaykh Muhammad Sa‘id Ramadan Al-Buti Dean, Dept. of Religion, University of Damascus, Syria
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Çağrıci Mufti of Istanbul, Turkey
H.E. Shaykh Prof. Dr. Mustafa Cerić Grand Mufti and Head of Ulema of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Professor Ibrahim Chabbuh Director General of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Jordan; President of the Association for the Safeguarding of the City of Qayrawan, Tunisia
H.E. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Cherif Muslim Intellectual; Former Minister of Higher Education and Former Ambassador,Algeria
Dr. Caner Dagli Assistant Professor, Roanoke College, USA
Ayatollah Prof. Dr. Seyyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad Dean of Department of Islamic Studies, The Academy of Sciences of Iran; Professor of Law and Islamic Philosophy, Tehran University; Fellow, The Iranian Academy of Sciences, Iran; Former Inspector General of Iran
Ayatollah Seyyed Abu Al-Qasim Al-Deebaji Imam Zayn Al-Abideen Mosque, Kuwait
H.E. Prof. Dr. Shakir Al-Fahham Head of the Arabic Language Academy, Damascus; Former Minister of Education, Syria
Shaykh Seyyed Hani Fahs Member of Supreme Shia Committee, Lebanon; Founding Member of the Arab Committee for the Islamic-Christian Dialogue, and the Permanent Committee for theLebanese Dialogue
H.E. Shaykh Salim Falahat Director General of the Muslim Brotherhood, Jordan
Chief Abdul Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo Member, Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs of Nigeria; Vice President, Jamaat Nasril Islam
H.E. Shaykh Ravil Gainutdin Grand Mufti of Russia
Justice Ibrahim Kolapo Sulu Gambari Justice of Nigerian Court of Appeal; National Vice Chairman, Nigerian Football Association (NFA)
Prof. Dr. Abd Al-Karim Gharaybeh Historian and Senator, Jordan
H.E. Prof. Dr. Abdullah Yusuf Al-Ghoneim Director of the Kuwaiti Centre for Research and Studies on Kuwait; Former Minister of Education, Kuwait
H.E. Prof. Dr. Bu Abd Allah bin al-Hajj Muhammad Al Ghulam Allah Minister of Religious Affairs, Algeria
Prof. Dr. Alan Godlas Co-Chair, Islamic Studies, University of Georgia, USA; Editor-in-chief, Sufi News and Sufism World Report; Director, Sufis Without Borders
H.E. Shaykh Nezdad Grabus Grand Mufti of Slovenia
H.E. Shaykh Dr. Al-Habib Ahmad bin Abd Al-Aziz Al-Haddad Chief Mufti of Dubai, UAE
Shaykh Al-Habib Ali Mashhour bin Muhammad bin Salim bin Hafeeth Imam of the Tarim Mosque and Head of Fatwa Council, Tarim, Yemen
Shaykh Al-Habib Umar bin Muhammad bin Salim bin Hafeeth Dean, Dar Al-Mustafa, Tarim, Yemen
Professor Dr. Farouq Hamadah Professor of the Sciences of Tradition, Mohammad V University, Morocco
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson Founder and Director, Zaytuna Institute, CA, USA
H.E. Shaykh Dr. Ahmad Badr Al-Din Hassoun Grand Mufti of the Republic of Syria
H.E. Shaykh. Sayyed Ali bin Abd Al-Rahman Al-Hashimi Advisor to the President for Judiciary and Religious Affairs, UAE
Prof. Dr. Hasan Hanafi Muslim Intellectual, Department of Philosophy, Cairo University
Shaykh Kabir Helminski
Shaykh of the Mevlevi Tariqah; Co-Director of the Book Foundation, USA
H.E. Shaykh Sa‘id Hijjawi Chief Scholar, The Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought; Former Grand Mufti of Jordan
H.E. Prof. Dr. Shaykh Ahmad Hlayyel Chief Islamic Justice of Jordan; Imam of the Hashemite Court; Former Minister of Religious Affairs
H.E. Amb. Dr. Murad Hofmann Author and Muslim Intellectual, Germany
H.E. Dr. Anwar Ibrahim Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia; Honorary President of AccountAbility
H.E. Shaykh Dr. Izz Al-Din Ibrahim Advisor for Cultural Affairs, Prime Ministry, UAE
H.E. Prof. Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu Secretary-General, Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
H.E. Prof. Dr. Omar Jah Secretary of the Muslim Scholars Council, Gambia; Professor of Islamic Civilization and Thought, University of Gambia
H.E. Prof. Dr. Abbas Al-Jarari Advisor to HM the King, Morocco
Shaykh Al-Habib Ali Zain Al-Abidin Al-Jifri
Founder and Director, Taba Institute, United Arab Emirates
H.E. Shaykh Prof. Dr. Ali Jum‘a
Grand Mufti of the Republic of Egypt
Prof. Dr. Yahya Mahmud bin Junayd
Secretary General, King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Ibrahim Kalin
Director, SETA Foundation, Ankara, Turkey; Asst. Prof. Georgetown University, USA
H.E. Amb. Aref Kamal
Muslim Intellectual, Pakistan
Professor Dr. ‘Abla Mohammed Kahlawi
Dean of Islamic and Arabic Studies, Al-Azhar University (Women’s College), Egypt
Prof. Dr. Said Hibatullah Kamilev
Director, Moscow Institute of Islamic Civilisation, Russian Federation
Prof. Dr. Hafiz Yusuf Z. Kavakci
Resident Scholar, Islamic Association of North Texas, Founder & Instructor of IANT
Qur’anic Academy; Founding Dean of Suffa Islamic Seminary, Dallas, Texas, USA
Shaykh Dr. Nuh Ha Mim Keller
Shaykh in the Shadhili Order, USA
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Dean and Professor, International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC),
International Islamic University, Malaysia
Shaykh Amr Khaled
Islamic Missionary, Preacher and Broadcaster, Egypt; Founder and Chairman, Right
Start Foundation International
Prof. Dr. Abd Al-Karim Khalifah
President of the Jordanian Arabic Language Academy; Former President of Jordan
University
H.E. Shaykh Ahmad Al-Khalili
Grand Mufti of the Sultanate of Oman
Seyyed Jawad Al-Khoei
Secretary-General, Al-Khoei International Foundation
Shaykh Dr. Ahmad Kubaisi
Founder of the ‘Ulema Organization, Iraq
Mr. M. Ali Lakhani
Founder and Editor of Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity, Canada
Dr. Joseph Lumbard
Assistant Professor, Brandeis University, USA
H.E. Shaykh Mahmood A. Madani
Secretary General, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind; Member of Parliament, India
H.E. Prof. Dr. Abdel-Kabeer Al-Alawi Al-Madghari
Director General of Bayt Mal Al-Quds Agency (Al-Quds Fund); Former Minister of
Religious Affairs, Morocco
H.E. Imam Sayyed Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi
Former Prime Minister of Sudan; Head of Ansar Movement, Sudan
H.E. Prof. Dr. Rusmir Mahmutcehajic
Professor, Sarajevo University; President of the International Forum Bosnia; Former
Vice President of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Allamah Shaykh Sayyed Muhammad bin Muhammad Al-Mansour
High Authority (Marja’) of Zeidi Muslims, Yemen
Prof. Dr. Bashshar Awwad Marouf
Former Rector of the Islamic University, Iraq
H.E. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Matloub
Former Minister of Culture; Acting President of the Iraqi Academy of Sciences, Iraq
Prof. Dr. Ingrid Mattson
Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations and Director, Islamic
Chaplaincy Program, Hartford Seminary; President of the Islamic Society of North
America (ISNA), USA
Dr. Yousef Meri
Special Scholar-in-Residence, Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Jordan
Dr. Jean-Louis Michon
Author; Muslim Scholar; Architect; Former UNESCO expert, Switzerland
Shaykh Abu Bakr Ahmad Al-Milibari
Secretary-General of the Ahl Al-Sunna Association, India
Pehin Dato Haj Suhaili bin Haj Mohiddin
Deputy Grand Mufti, Brunei
Ayatollah Sheikh Hussein Muayad
President and Founder, Knowledge Forum, Baghdad, Iraq
Prof. Dr. Izzedine Umar Musa
Professor of Islamic History, King Sa‘ud University, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Farouk Al-Nabhan
Former Director of Dar Al-Hadith Al-Hasaniya, Morocco
Prof. Dr. Zaghloul El-Naggar
Professor, King Abd Al-Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Head, Committee on
Scientific Facts in the Glorious Qur’an, Supreme Council on Islamic Affairs, Egypt
Mr. Sohail Nakhooda
Editor-in-Chief, Islamica Magazine, Jordan
Prof. Dr. Hisham Nashabeh
Chairman of the Board of Higher Education; Dean of Education at Makassed
Association, Lebanon
H.E. Professor Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr
University Professor of Islamic Studies, George Washington University, Washington D.C, USA
Prof. Dr. Aref Ali Nayed
Former Professor at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (Rome);
Former Professor at International Institute for Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC,
Malaysia); Senior Advisor to the Cambridge Interfaith Program at the Faculty of
Divinity in Cambridge, UK
H.E. Shaykh Sevki Omarbasic
Grand Mufti of Croatia
Dato Dr. Abdul Hamid Othman
Advisor to the H.E. the Prime Minister of Malaysia
Prof. Dr. Ali Ozek
Head of the Endowment for Islamic Scientific Studies, Istanbul, Turkey
Imam Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini
Vice President of CO.RE.IS., Italy, Chairman of ISESCO Council for Education and
Culture in the West, Advisor for Islamic Affairs of the Italian Minister of Interior.
H.E. Shaykh Dr. Nuh Ali Salman Al-Qudah
Grand Mufti of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
H.E. Shaykh Dr. Ikrima Said Sabri
Former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and All of Palestine, Imam of the Blessed Al-Aqsa
Mosque, and President of the Islamic Higher Council, Palestine
Ayatollah Al-Faqih Seyyed Hussein Ismail Al-Sadr
Baghdad, Iraq
Mr. Muhammad Al-Sammak
Secretary-General of the National Council for Islamic-Christian Dialogue;
Secretary-General for the Islamic Spiritual Summit, Lebanon
Shaykh Seyyed Hasan Al-Saqqaf
Director of Dar Al-Imam Al-Nawawi, Jordan
Dr. Ayman Fuad Sayyid
Historian and Manuscript Expert, Former Secretary General of Dar al-Kutub Al-
Misriyya, Cairo, Egypt
Prof. Dr. Suleiman Abdallah Schleifer
Professor Emeritus, The American University in Cairo
Dr. Seyyed Reza Shah-Kazemi
Author and Muslim Scholar, UK
Dr. Anas Al-Shaikh-Ali
Chair, Association of Muslim Social Scientists, UK; Chair, Forum Against Islamophobia
and Racism, UK; Academic Advisor, IIIT, UK
Imam Zaid Shakir
Lecturer and Scholar-in-Residence, Zaytuna Institute, CA, USA
H.E. Prof. Dr. Ali Abdullah Al-Shamlan
Director General of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS);
Former Minister of Higher Education, Kuwait
Eng. Seyyed Hasan Shariatmadari
Leader of the Iranian National Republican Party (INR)
Dr. Muhammad Alwani Al-Sharif
Head of the European Academy of Islamic Culture and Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
H.E. Dr. Mohammad Abd Al-Ghaffar Al-Sharif
Secretary-General of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Kuwait
Dr. Tayba Hassan Al-Sharif
International Protection Officer, The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,
Darfur, Sudan
Prof. Dr. Muhammad bin Sharifa
Former Rector of Wajda University; Morocco; Fellow of the Royal Moroccan Academy
Prof. Dr. Muzammil H. Siddiqui / on behalf of the whole Fiqh Council of North
America
Islamic Scholar and Theologian; Chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America, USA
Shaykh Ahmad bin Sa’ud Al-Siyabi
Secretary General of the Directorate of the Grand Mufti, Oman
Al-Haji Yusuf Maitama Sule
Former Nigerian Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Former Nigerian
Minister of National Guidance
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Abd Al-Rahim Sultan-al-Ulama
Deputy-Dean of Scientific Research Affairs, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Shaykh Dr. Tariq Sweidan
Director-General of the Risalah Satellite Channel
H.E. Shaykh Ahmad Muhammad Muti’i Tamim
The Head of the Religious Administration of Ukrainian Muslims, and Mufti of Ukraine
H.E. Shaykh Izz Al-Din Al-Tamimi
Senator; Former Chief Islamic Justice, Minister of Religious Affairs and Grand Mufti of Jordan
H.E. Shaykh Dr. Tayseer Rajab Al-Tamimi
Chief Islamic Justice of Palestine; Head of The Palestinian Center for Religion and Civilization Dialogue
Prof. Dr. H.R.H. Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal
Personal Envoy and Special Advisor of H.M. King Abdullah II; Chairman of the Board of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Jordan
Prof. Dr. Ammar Al-Talibi
Former Member of Parliament, Professor of Philosophy, University of Algeria
Ayatollah Shaykh Muhammad Ali Taskhiri
Secretary General of the World Assembly for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought
(WAPIST), Iran
H.E. Prof. Dr. Shaykh Ahmad Muhammad Al-Tayeb
President of Al-Azhar University, Former Grand Mufti of Egypt
Prof. Dr. Muddathir Abdel-Rahim Al-Tayib
Professor of Political Science and Islamic Studies, International Institute of Islamic
Thought and Civilization (ISTAC), Malaysia
H.E. Amb. Prof. Dr. Abdel-Hadi Al-Tazi
Fellow of the Royal Moroccan Academy
H.E. Shaykh Naim Trnava
Grand Mufti of Kosovo
H.E. Dr. Abd Al-Aziz bin ‘Uthman Al-Tweijiri
Director-General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO)
H.E. Prof. Dr. Nasaruddin Umar
Rector of the Institute for Advanced Qur’anic Studies; Secretary General of the
Nahdhatul Ulama Consultative Council; Lecturer at the State Islamic University Syarif
Hidayatullah, Jakarta, Indonesia
Shaykh Muhammad Hasan ‘Usayran
Jafari Mufti of Sidon and Al-Zahrani, Lebanon
Allamah Justice Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Vice President, Darul Uloom Karachi, Pakistan
Prof. Dr. Akhtarul Wasey Director, Zakir Husain Institute of Islamic Studies, Jamia Milla Islamiya University, India
Shaykh Dr. Abdal Hakim Murad Winter
Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Divinity School, University of Cambridge;
Director of the Muslim Academic Trust, UK
Prof. Dr. Mohammed El-Mokhtar Ould Bah
President, Chinguitt Modern University, Mauritania
H.E. Shaykh Muhammad Sodiq Mohammad Yusuf
Former Grand Mufti of the Muslim Spiritual Administration of Central Asia, Uzbekistan;
Translator and Commentator of the Holy Qur’an
Prof. Dr. Shaykh Wahba Mustafa Al-Zuhayli
Dean, Department of Islamic Jurisprudence, University of Damascus, Syria
H.E. Shaykh Mu’ammar Zukoulic
Mufti of Sanjak, Bosnia