GIC Timeline

A Reflection of Professionalism, Consistency, and Excellence.

2023

The GIC is recognized by governments and major Islamic bodies throughout the Middle East and Europe as a vital clerical entity representing Islam and Muslims.

The Muslim World League host GIC's leadership alongside the Islamic Fatwa Council.

2022

Governments, parliaments and government officials across Europe and the Middle East host and invite GIC's Leadership. (Belgium, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Croatia, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Italy, among others).

2021

GIC membership increases to 1300 members. The religious advisor to the Prime Minister of Iraq joins GIC.

GIC establishes healthy relations throughout the Gulf.

2020

In collaboration with the United States Department of State, the GIC became the first Imams Council in history to pass a unanimous vote adopting the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism.

2019

The Global Imams Council forms international and governmental relations, and receives an invitation from the Prime Minister of Hungary.

2018

Nearly 500 Imams officially consolidated to form The Global Imams Council, the world’s first and largest international non-governmental body of Muslim religious leaders from all Islamic denominations and schools of thought.

2017

Our Imams begin preparing for the transformation of the coalition into an international council of Muslim scholars.

2016

With a membership exceeding 300 Imams, the coalition began building bridges between all religious groups. The coalition was officially recognized by the Islamic Seminary as representative of Islam.

2015

Led by our Council’s current members, the coalition surpassed 230 members, and worked diligently to eradicate and supplant ISIS extremism with mainstream Islamic doctrine.

2014

A coalition of 100+ Imams is formed in response to ISIS' invasion of Iraq and Syria. The Iraqi government invited this coalition to combat the spread of ISIS' ideological terrorism and Islamist propaganda.