Umar Al-Qadri

Muhammad Umar al-Qadri محمد عمر القادری
Shaykh Umar al-Qadri
Founder Al-Mustafa Islamic Cultural Centre Ireland Chair Irish Muslim Peace & Integration Council
Personal details
Citizenship	Ireland
Nationality	Netherlands
Children	3
Alma mater	Minhaj University
Occupation	Imam, Scholar, Lecturer
Religion	Islam
Website	impic.ie

Muhammad Umar Al-Qadri is an Islamic scholar and Sheikh based in Ireland who was born to a Pakistani Muslim scholarly family. His father is Muslim scholar Hazrat Maulana Mehr Ali Qadri, who arrived in late 1970s in Den Haag, Netherlands, to serve as an Imam. Qadri is also the Chair of the Irish Muslim Peace & Integration Council, a national representative Muslim body with presence in Dublin, Cork, Athlone, Port Laoise and Belfast.

He moved to Ireland in 2004 after completing his religious studies from Jamia Islamia Minhaj-Ul-Quran in Pakistan and started working full time as an accounts payable in Philips. He co-founded the Clonee Mosque in a residential state and in 2008 founded Al-Mustafa Islamic Cultural Centre Ireland in Dublin.

Al-Qadri has traveled around Ireland, the UK and other Western countries to deliver lectures on Islam in Islamic centres, mosques, colleges and universities. His lectures are also shown on Ummah Channel.

Al-Qadri represents the Muslim community of Ireland in various governmental and non-governmental bodies and organisations, including the Fingal Ethnic Network, Fingal County Council, Citizen Information Centre Blanchardstown, TCD Scriptural Reasoning Group and Council of Irish Imams. He was appointed in June 2013 as the secretary of the Fingal Ethnic Network and he served until 2014.

Muhammad Umar Al-Qadri writes occasionally on Islam related affairs in Irish newspapers particularly the Irish Times.

Umar Al-Qadri has delivered various Islamic lectures on popular media channels including Ummah Channel , ARY Qtv , Noor TV and Minhaj TV. A recent program series "Friends of Allah" on ARY Qtv

Al-Qadri is a firm believer in interfaith and intra faith relations. As a Sunni Muslim scholar himself, he has attended many Shia Muslim gatherings and events as main guest. In the Islamic Centre that he has found, he has also invited the national Shia leader of Ireland, Shaykh Dr. Ali Saleh. Shaykh Muhammad Umar Al-Qadri has spoken on many interfaith events and written also the preface on " A journey together, A Muslim Christian dialogue resource" published by Cois Tine.