[1] The organization, which is headquartered in Rome, manages 80 mosques and around 300 unofficial prayer facilities around the country.
Hamza Roberto Piccardo is a former militant of Autonomia Operaia who converted to Islam and is currently the director of the publishing house Libreria islamica (formerly known as “Al Hikma”).
[citation needed] The operating and construction costs of some of the organization's mosques have been funded in part by Qatar.
[3] The UCOII claims that its ties are limited to their leadership and the management of UCOII relates more closely to other groups such as: the European Council for Fatwa and Research, European Islam, scholars like the Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa, Tariq Ramadan.
And the UCOII focusses on the scholarship of Islamic feminists and to the writings of Italian converts and Muslim youths and students in Italy.