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On 8 July 2017, the Mayor of Retford, Cllr Helen Richards, and former Chairman of Bassetlaw District Council, Cllr Jim Anderson, visited Jamia Al-Karam at Eaton Hall and met with the Founder and Principal, Shaykh Muhammad Imdad Hussain Pirzada, and the Vice-Principal, Bakhtyar Pirzada al-Azhari. On this occasion, a beautiful rose bush that had been […]

On Sunday 16 July 2017, the 19th Annual Urs Conference commemorating the life and legacy of the erudite Sufi scholar, Zia-ul-Ummat Justice Pir Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari (1918-1998), was held at Jamia Al-Karam in Retford, Nottinghamshire, which also featured the graduation ceremony of 19 male and female students of Jamia Al-Karam. The conference was hosted […]

This week is the Srebrenica Memorial Week marking the Bosnian genocide of 1995 in which the European Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina suffered “unimaginable savagery” at the hands of General Ratko Mladic’s forces. More than 8,000 Muslim men and boys were massacred in the greatest atrocity on European soil since the Second World War. We […]

The 19th Annual Urs Conference commemorating the life, legacy and achievements of the erudite Sufi scholar, Zia-ul-Ummat Justice Pir Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari (1918-1998), will be held at Jamia Al-Karam in Retford on Sunday 16th July 2017. Hundreds of Imams, scholars and guests from around the UK and abroad will attend the gathering. The event […]

On 17 May 2017, Jamia Al-Karam warmly welcomed students and staff from the Mattersey Hall College near Doncaster and hosted a football match between student teams from the two institutions on the grounds of Jamia Al-Karam at Eaton Hall. Mattersey Hall is the AoG Pentecostal Bible College for the UK. Although the weather was clearly […]

Following the tragic events in London, the British Muslim Forum, which is chaired by the Principal of Jamia Al-Karam, Shaykh Muhammad Imdad Hussain Pirzada, issued the following statement. The BMF condemns terror attack at Finsbury Park in London The British Muslim Forum strongly condemns yet another terrorist attack in Britain that occurred last night at […]

On 25 May 2017, senior graduate of Jamia Al-Karam, Ansar Basir Hussain, was elected as Mayor of Wolverton Town in the city of Milton Keynes, after having served as Chairman of the Wolverton & Greenleys Town Council for the past three years. Jamia Al-Karam extends its congratulations and well-wishes to the learned Cllr Ansar Hussain, […]