Исламская Фундация в Великобритании: История и Деятельность

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The Islamic Foundation (, also called the Islamic Foundation UK) is Jamaat e Islami's research and publishing house in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1973 by two high ranking Pakistani activists of Jamaat e Islami,
Khurshid Ahmad and Khurram Murad. Its objectives are to research into the implementation of Islam in the modern world, to project the image of Islam in Britain and Europe, and to meet the educational needs of Muslims.

Jamaat e Islami is an Islamist movement founded by Abul A'la Maududi in British India in 1941, which split into Indian and Pakistani wings after the partition of India. It is the Pakistani wing of Jamaat that spawned UK's Islamic Foundation, sending one of its vice presidents, Khurshid Ahmad, to set up the organisation. Ahmad split his time between Pakistan and the UK throughout his lifetime. Another senior Pakistani Jamaat activist Khurram Murad became the first director of the Foundation. The Islamic Foundation was established in the city of Leicester in 1973. By that time, there was another Jamaat organisation in the UK, called the UK Islamic Mission (UKIM), whose programme was to run a network of study circles and mosques. The two organisations do not a have a formal link, but have an overlap of functionaries. In its early years, the Islamic Foundation also established about twenty mosques and community centres. Protests swept the entire South Asian Muslim community in Britain and enhanced the stature of the Islamic Foundation.