This conference focused on rebuilding Islam’s global image. This included sessions on creating a new narrative for Islam, Islamic leadership, and the Halal economy and Islamic finance. The Forum sought to understand and highlight the factors leading to misunderstandings of Muslim beliefs and how Islamic leadership can deconstruct and remedy this, along with providing a platform for Muslim leaders to find solutions for a more peaceful future.
► The Hon. Dato’ Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
► Mr Mahmut Özdemir, Representative of the President of Religious Affairs for the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Turkey
► The Rt Hon. Lord Bates, Minister of State for International Development, UK
► The Hon. Dato’ Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, Malaysia
► HE Adamu Adamu, Minister of Education Nigeria
► Rev. Dr Richard Sudworth, Secretary for Inter-Religious Affairs to the Archbishop of Canterbury
The conference aimed to address the impact that Islamic values, beliefs, and teachings have on global models. In understanding this impact, the WMLF highlighted the changing influence that Islam has in a range of spheres, and the important and unique responses that Islam offers in finance, jurisprudence, development, and knowledge. Delegates included parliamentarians, politicians, experts and scholars, UN bodies, the interfaith community, activists, and policy leaders, as well as corporate leaders.
► Dr Saád Ali Shire, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Somaliland
► YB Hajjah Nancy Shukri, Minister in Prime Minister’s Department, Malaysia
► Ms Dunya Maumoon, President of the Women’s Wing Progressive Party of Maldives and Former Foreign Minister, Republic of Maldives
► Baroness Elizabeth Berridge, Conservative Peer in the House of Lords
► Ms Misbah M. Sheikh, Chief, Partnership Division, UNRWA, Jordan
