Delegation from Grand Mufti’s Office visited the Islamic University in the city of Medina

On June 30 (Sunday) this year a delegation from Grand Mufti’s Office visited the Islamic University in the city of Medina, Saudi Arabia. During the official visit the Grand Mufti Dr. Mustafa Hadzhi was accompanied by his deputy Birali Myumyun Birali and the Chairman of the Supreme Muslim Council (SMC) Vedat Ahmed.

The guests from the Muslim Denomination of Bulgaria were welcomed by the Rector of the Islamic University of Medina Dr. Abdullah Muhammad Otaibi and his deputy Dr. Hasan Abdulmenam Ali. The aim of the held meeting was to come to an agreement between the two countries on educating students from Bulgaria in the prestigious university in Medina. It is one of the oldest Islamic universities in a world scale and students from all over the world are trained there in various Islamic sciences. Even 85% of the students in the university are foreigners.

One of the discussed during the meeting issues was to determine a regulation on the education of students from Bulgaria in Medina, as well as the possibility to obtain post-graduate specialization, carrying out short-term courses, workshops and training for students and Muslim clerics from Bulgaria. Priority in this joint educational project will be learning and mastery of Arabic language, because this knowledge is the foundation for the people dealing with Islamic studies.

The hosts from the Islamic University in Medina highlighted that they will provide an opportunity for education of students from Bulgaria also in fields other than Islamic theology.

Within the meeting the religious leader of the Muslims in Bulgaria and Rector of the High Islamic Institute in Sofia Dr. Mustafa Hadzhi informed the management of the University of Medina with the Islamic religious education in our country and the educational centers where pupils and university students could obtain Islamic religious education in Bulgaria.

Dr. Abdullah Muhammad Oteibi expressed the opinion that the leading position of the Muslim clerics and of the people dealing with religion and religious training especially in countries with different religious communities opposition must be avoided. Instead a dialogue and positive inter-faith interaction should be sought, further said during the meeting the Rector of the University of Medina Dr. Oteibi.