# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/muhammad-auwal-albani-zaria
# Generated: 2026-08-16T00:43:57.915Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/muhammad-auwal-albani-zaria"
name: "Muhammad Auwal Albani Zaria"
slug: "muhammad-auwal-albani-zaria"
description: "Muhammad Auwal Adam also known as Albani Zaria was a Nigerian Islamic scholar, and futurist who specialized in the field of Hadith and Fiqh. Islamic Law, mass communication, telecommunications engineering and ICT. He was a prominent Islamic scholar and the leader of the Salafi movement in Nigeria. He was a tailor at his earlier stage of life of which he usually called himself. He was the first scholar to ascribe the word \"Salafiyah\" to the generation of scholars and students of Islamic denomination in Nigeria. Albani was considered by many contemporary Nigerian scholars as the greatest Salafi scholar in Nigeria."
tagline: "Nigerian Islamic scholar"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
birthDate: "1960-09-27"
deathDate: "2014-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.776749333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Auwal_Albani_Zaria"
    title: "Muhammad Auwal Albani Zaria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "محمد أول الألباني زاريا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "মুহাম্মদ আউয়াল আদম"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Auwal_Albani_Zaria"
    title: "Muhammad Auwal Albani Zaria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albani_Zaria"
    title: "Albani Zaria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://knc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammed_Auwal_Adam_Abani_zaria"
    title: "Muhammed Auwal Adam Abani zaria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "محمد اول البانی زاریا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63928624"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump