Ali al-Qaradaghi

Sheikh Ali al-Qaradaghi (Arabic: علي القره داغي, born in Qaradagh, Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan, Iraq) is an influential a Kurdish Sunni scholar of Islam, an expert on Sharia and Fiqh combined with Islamic economics.

He is a professor of Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Sharia and Islamic Studies of the Qatar University in Doha and he has a Qatari citizenship.

Al-Qaradaghi is the Secretary General of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS, current headquarters in Doha, the capital of Qatar, headed by Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi).

Ali al-Qaradaghi took part in the International Theological Conference "Islamic Doctrine against Radicalism" in Moscow on 25–26 May 2012.

According to Chechen historian and political analyst Mairbek Vatchagaev (the article published by the American Jamestown Foundation), Ali al-Qaradaghi and the International Union of Muslim scholars for Moscow play an important role in internal Russian Islamic stability:[2] He is an active supporter of Yusuf al-Qaradawi and his project "Muhammad: A Mercy for All" [16], and called upon all Muslims to support this project financially to IslamOnline.net (IOL) (with donations to the Qatar Islamic Bank in Doha, Qatar) and to give moral support: On his reaction to the murder of Muslim students in Chapel Hill shortly after the Paris attacks, Spiegel (the Mirror) reported:[3]