Grand Mufti Mevlud Dudić has been serving the 700,000-strong Serbian Muslim population (approximately 11% of the country’s population) in his current role since 2014. Previously, he held positions as Director of the Gazi Isa-beg madrasah, Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies and Rector of the International University, all three in Novi Pazar. He has also served on Government Commissions, and is currently a member of the government commission for religious education. He has written hundreds of papers and is the author of the monograph: The Gazi Isa-beg madrasah: The Al-Azhar of Sandžak. Fluent in Arabic, English and Albanian, Dudić enjoys good relations with Muslim religious scholars the world over and is a member of the main global Islamic organisations.