Overview of Iqraa
The Launch, Vision and Development of Iqraa Channel
Founded by Sheikh Saleh Abdullah Kamel on the first of Rajab 1419 AH, October 21, 1998 CE, Iqraa was the first Islamic satellite channel, launched with the goal to reflect the original Arab culture and spread the tolerant and moderate teachings of Islam, while addressing all family members through its diverse programming.
The launch of Iqraa Satellite Channel was without a doubt a groundbreaking, successful and prominent experience, as the first Islamic satellite channel in the world, that started broadcasting in Arabic, covering the Arab world, and later expanding to cover Europe, then North America, then Asia and Australia. Now, Iqraa Channel’s broadcast covers almost the entire world.
Iqraa’s first international channel was launched in English in 2011, followed by French, as a precursor to spreading this moderate thought in many languages to all mankind.