Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4643942.stm

On January 24, 2006 BBC News reported, "Prince Charles and Tony Blair are among leading figures to have paid tribute to one of the UK's most influential Muslim clerics, Zaki Badawi, who has died. He was principal of the Muslim College in Britain and called for Muslims to engage fully with life in the country. Mr Blair described him as 'a wonderful mix of spirituality and practicality', while the prince said his death was 'a blow personally and for the country'. Dr Badawi, 83, collapsed and died after delivering a speech in London. Dr Badawi was a former imam of Regent's Park Mosque, in London, and forged close ties with Jewish and Christian leaders. Following his election in 1984, he had served as the chairman of the Council of Mosques and Imams of the United Kingdom. The Muslim College in Britain was a seminary he founded to train imams and Muslim leaders in the West."