Our trustees

Azeem Ibrahim – Trustee and Chairman

UNITY Chairman Azeem Ibrahim was brought up in Glasgow. In recent years, he has turned himself into a highly successful and wealthy businessman which has recently seen him being inaugurated into the Sunday Times Scots Rich List. Among other concerns, Azeem is the owner of The European Commerce and Mercantile Bank, the first online bank specialising in commodity trading.

Much of Azeem’s time is now devoted to charitable works, of which UNITY is the latest. In particular, he is intent on building a £1m endowment for his Benevolence Fund, which gives Bosnian students a postgraduate education in Europe that they then use to help their home communities.

Azeem has also set up PURIFI, a charity that aims to get clean drinking water to those who need it most, principally in Sudan and other parts of Africa. At the heart of the solution is a unique, advanced drinking-water disinfectant without by-products, side effects or undesired hazards.


Shaykh Amer - Family Support Consultant

Shaykh Amer was born and brought up in Glasgow, Scotland. After graduating from Strathclyde University with an LLB (Bachelor in Law), he spent ten years studying the Arabic language and Islamic Sciences. During this period he obtained a BA (Hons) in Islamic studies from the University of Wales and then strengthened his studies by studying for five years with reputable scholars in the Middle East.

 He has teaching licenses (ijaza) in various Islamic subjects which he studied. His teachers are many in number and from a range of different schools of thought. His balanced studies in both the secular and religious gives him a combination of sound scholarship with a profound understanding of society.

Shaykh Amer's field of interest is primarily Islamic family law; an area in which he has studied in depth having studied all four schools of Islamic jurisprudence (Hanafi and Hanbali schools- Syria, Shafi and Maliki schools– Yemen).