and must be exposed, opposed and condemned. It also has a certification from the Islamic Research Council of Al-Azhar, Egypt issued on 9 January 2011. The Fatwa on Terrorism and Suicide Bombings has been officially endorsed by Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. In January 2011, the fatwa was discussed at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011. In June 2011, Pope Benedict XVI received a copy of the fatwa from representatives of Minhaj Interfaith Relations. The Pope reportedly appreciated that it promoted peace, harmony and interfaith dialogue. The Fatwa on Terrorism and Suicide Bombings was reviewed positively by Kemal Argon who published a review in the Journal of Rotterdam Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2011, pp. 149–160. Islamic University of Rotterdam, Netherlands. Invitation to OIC On 7 April 2019, Qadri addressed scholars at the OIC meeting in Riyadh and presented Minhaj-ul-Quran's Counter Terrorism Syllabus. Views According to one newspaper pundit, the legal-theological opinion by Qadri in his fatwa on terrorism creates an impression that there is a consensus in Islam on the Khawarij. Think Magazine (World Religions) cited Dr. Tahir ul Qadri as providing a competing vision of Islam against that of Osama Bin Laden. In November 2017, Mandla Mandela (the grandson of South African revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela) visited Pakistan after his conversion to Islam in 2016. He arrived in Pakistan on Tahir ul Qadri's invitation to attend Tajdar-e-Khatam-e-Nabuwwat Conference in Pakistan. Works He has authored 1000 works out of which 550 are published books, including an "eight-volume, 7,000-page Qur’anic Encyclopaedia in English covering all 6,000-plus verses of the Koran." He has delivered over 6000 lectures and has been teaching subjects such as Islamic jurisprudence, theology, sufism, Islamic philosophy, law, Islamic politics, hadith, seerah, and many other traditional sciences. His works include: Islamic Concept of Crime (1985) Islamic Concept of Law (1987) Islam and Christianity (1999) Peace & Submission (2011) Muhammad the Merciful (2014) Fatwa on Suicide Bombings and Terrorism (2014) translated by Shaykh Abdul Aziz Dabbagh Islam on Mercy and Compassion (2014) Creation of Man - A Review of Qur'an and Modern Embryology (2017) Beseeching for Help (Istighathah) published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform in 2017 See also Minhaj-ul-Quran International The Amman Message Contemporary Islamic philosophy London Declaration for Global Peace and Resistance against Extremism 2011 Minhaj Welfare Foundation Minhaj University References External links A Profile of Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri by Minhaj-ul-Quran International 1951