JEDDAH, 22 June — The Toronto Islamic Center will hold an intensive course in Islamic and Arabic studies next month in association with the Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah, according to Ibrahim Hussein Malabari, TIC’s director general.
“The university has agreed to send five professors to give lectures in various Islamic topics and Arabic language,” he said, adding that 500 students have registered for the course.
Malabari, a senior official of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), has been invited by the Muslim World League to present a paper on “Islamic Dawa in North America” at MWL’s international conference in Makkah on Sept. 8-12.
He said some 350 delegates representing Muslim organizations in different parts of the world would take part in the MWL conference whose main theme is “Muslim Ummah and Globalization.”
Islam was spreading fast in Canada, he said, adding that Muslims would become the second largest community, after the Christians, in the country very soon. He said an ISNA conference in Toronto, which attracted more than 3,000 delegates, was a great success.
