Umar Al-Qadri
Pakistani Irish Muslim scholar
Muhammad Umar Al-Qadri is a Sunni Islamic scholar and sheikh based in Ireland who was born to a Pakistani Muslim scholarly family. His father is Sunni Muslim scholar Mehr Ali Qadri, who arrived in the late 1970s in The Hague, Netherlands, to serve as an Imam. Al-Qadri is also the Chair of the Irish Muslim Peace & Integration Council, a national representative Muslim body with a presence in Dublin, Cork, Athlone, Portlaoise and Belfast. He unsuccessfully contested the 2024 European Parliament election for the Dublin constituency and for the Dublin West constituency in the 2024 Irish general election.
Early life
Al-Qadri was born in Pakistan. He moved to the Netherlands at a young age, where his Sunni Muslim scholar father, Mehr Ali Qadri, had settled in the 1970s to serve as an imam in The Hague. After completing his secondary education in the Netherlands, he completed his Masters (Shahadah Al-Alamiyyah) in Islamic Sciences at Jamia Islamia Minhaj-ul-Quran in Pakistan.
Life in Ireland
Al-Qadri moved to Ireland in 2004, and started working full time as an imam. He founded the Clonee Mosque in a residential estate and in 2008 founded the Al-Mustafa Islamic Cultural Centre Ireland in Dublin.
Al-Qadri is a representative of the Muslim community of Ireland in various governmental and non-governmental bodies and organisations, including the Fingal Ethnic Network, Fingal County Council, Blanchardstown Citizens Information Centre, and the TCD Scriptural Reasoning Group.
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