Formation of motamar Al-Alam Al-Islami, 1926

The World Muslim Congress (Motamar Al-Alam Al-Islami)was founded in an assemblage of eminent leaders from the World of Islam held in Makkah in 1926. King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia played host to the Congress. The Congress resolved that a permanent international Islamic organization be set up to promote solidarity and cooperation among the global Islamic community (Ummah).

The Organizational Shape, 1931

It assumed organizational shape in the second International Islamic Conference held in Baitul Maqdas (Jerusalem) in 1931.The constitution and rules and regulations of the Motamar Al-Islam Al-Islami) were framed and approved in this conference.

Revival OF The Motamar, 1949

After the birth of the Muslim-majority State of Pakistan on August 14, 1947, eminent Signatories of the World of Islam began working for the revival of the Motamar Al-Alam Al-Islam. Its revival was achieved in a World Muslim Conference held in Karachi, the capital of Pakistan at that time in February 1949.

Support To the Kashmiris, 1950

In 1950, the Motamar submitted a scroll bearing a million signatures supporting the Kashmiris' right of self-determination and a UN-supervised plebiscite to the first secretary-general of the United Nations, Mr. Trygve Lie in New York.

The New Form And Shape, 1951

This was followed by a bigger conference of the Motamar held in Karachi in February 1951. This Conference gave a new form and shape to the Motamar Al-Alam Al-Islami, making Karachi the headquarters of the Motamar, with Alhaj Aminul Hussaini, the Grand Mufti of Palestine, as its President and Dr. Insamullah Khan as its secretary-general.The Motamar's 1951 Conference held in Karachi saw the seeding of many ideas of cooperation amongthe Muslim countries and people, which in the years that followed became realities.