# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ibraheem-zakzaky
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:26:47.232Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ibraheem-zakzaky"
name: "Ibraheem Zakzaky"
slug: "ibraheem-zakzaky"
description: "Ibraheem Yaqoub El-Zakzaky is a Nigerian Shia Muslim cleric and political activist. One of the most outspoken and prominent Nigerian Shia leaders, he has been imprisoned several times for what he sees as injustice, especially the system of corruption in his country. Zakzaky claims that only Islam can offer solution to the complex socio-political problems facing Nigeria, which has over the years stagnated the country's development. In a lecture he has delivered in marking the occasion of Sheikh Uthman Bn Fodio Week organized by the Academic Forum of Islamic Movement, Zakzaky stated that he is continuing the Jihad of Uthman Bn Fodio to make sure that Islam becomes the ruling religion in not only Nigeria but the entirety of West Africa. In a lecture he delivered on the same occasion in Sokoto, one of his proponents, Dr. Nasir Hashim has claimed that Zakzaky’s dream is the only hope for Africa."
tagline: "Islamic cleric"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sheikh_Zakzaky_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-05-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.67
  momentum:             2.845714285714286
  historical:           14.19965066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  243
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump