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Abdul Qayum | |
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আব্দুল কাইয়ুম | |
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Citizenship | British |
Occupation(s) | Imam, lecturer, religious leader |
Organization(s) | East London Mosque European Council for Fatwa and Research |
Abdul Qayum (Bengali: মুহাম্মদ আব্দুল কাইয়ুম, Arabic: مُحَمَّد عَبْدُ الْقَيُّوم; b. 1 March 1960) is a British Bangladeshi scholar and the chief Imam of the East London Mosque. A former lecturer of the International Islamic University Malaysia, Abdul Qayum served also as a presenter on Islamic programmes on Peace TV Bangla and Channel 9.
Abdul Qayum was born in the District of Noakhali in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). He studied Islamic Sciences and Hadith at the Government Madrasah-e-Alia in Dhaka and then continued his studies of Islamic Sciences under several scholars in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. At the Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, he completed a Bachelor of Arts in Arabic Language & Literature and a Master of Arts in Applied linguistics. He then became a lecturer of Quranic Arabic at the International Islamic University of Malaysia.
After moving to the United Kingdom with his family, he was elected as the Khatib of the East London Mosque in 1993. In 2008, he was made aware of Richard House Children's Hospice and in 2010 he became a patron. He is a member of European Council for Fatwa and Research and National Council of Imams and Rabbis, which is a registered operating name of the Joseph Interfaith Foundation. He is also a signatory to Istanbul's Environmental Declaration.
Abdul Qayum studied hadith and other Islamic sciences alongside Mohammad Akram Nadwi and attended SOAS, University of London.
In early January 2021, he and some of his family members had tested positive for COVID-19 amid the pandemic, and were admitted to the Royal London Hospital for care.