About the Foundation       The Aal al-Bayt Foundation for Islamic Thought is an international charitable trust based in Jordan but comprising of 70 to 100 members of the world’s top Islamic scholars, who meet or correspond on a regular basis. It is a political and recognizes all seven traditional madhhabs (or legal schools) of Islam. It was established in 1980 by the late H.M. King Hussein of Jordan as a service to the Islamic world and to the umma.