Ibrahim Mogra

Who is Ibrahim Mogra?

Ibrahim Mogra is an imam from Leicester and Assistant Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain.

Mogra was born in 1965 in Malawi into a family of Gujarati Indian origin and emigrated to the UK at the age of 18 to study and settle. He was educated at Darul Uloom Bury, Holcombe, Greater Manchester; Al-Azhar University, Cairo; and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He is the founder and Principal of Khazinatul-`Ilm, Madaris of Arabic and Muslim Life Studies, in Leicester.

In 2000, he contributed to BBC Radio 2's Faith in The Nation examination of the afterlife amongst the main religious faiths. He has been a panelist on The Big Questions, a faith and ethics television programme broadcast live on BBC One.

Mogra believes that for British Muslims "our loyalty to Britain must be unquestionable".

Mogra has been a representative for Jewish-Muslim relations appreciating the similarities of communities governed by a code of law and ethics and religious festivals and holy days. Asked to choose a favourite film for The Clerics' Choice in The Daily Telegraph, Mogra picked The Message, "you see through the eyes of the camera, as the Messenger would have seen it".