Muslim World League's chief holds a third round of scholarly dialogue in Pakistan

Muslim World League Secretary-General Sheikh Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa spent mid-July in Islamabad for the third session of a standing consultative forum with Pakistani religious scholars, alongside separate meetings with the Senate speaker, the chief justice, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. The substance was less a single announcement than a demonstration of format: a recurring, multi-year forum that pairs a transnational religious body with a national judiciary, legislature, and executive on questions of religious coexistence and social cohesion, rather than a one-off goodwill visit. Sharif specifically credited the League's advocacy for a moderate, dialogue-based image of Islam as relevant to live regional questions, including the Gulf situation and Gaza. Institutions that want to shape how Islam is represented in high-stakes geopolitics need exactly this kind of standing access to a state's judiciary and legislature, not just its executive branch — which is what makes a third consecutive round of this forum more significant than the first.

This is a QeRN summary by Ahmed Qerni. Read the original at Arab News: https://www.arabnews.com/node/2651198/amp.