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Muhammad Taqi Usmani

Pakistani judge · Pakistan · On the map · Writers · Born 1943 · age 83

Muhammad Taqi Usmani SI, OI, is a Pakistani Islamic jurist and leading scholar of the Qur'an, Hadith, Islamic law, Islamic economics, and comparative religion.

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Order of Independence2010

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He was a member of the Council of Islamic Ideology from 1977 to 1981, a judge of the Federal Shariat Court from 1981 to 1982, and a judge in the Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1982 to 2002. In 2020, he was selected as the most influential Muslim personality in the world. He is considered a leading intellectual of the contemporary Deobandi movement, and his opinions and fatwas are widely accepted by Deobandi scholars and Deobandi institutions worldwide, including the Darul Uloom Deoband in India. Since 2021, he has been serving as the Chairman of Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia. His father, Shafi Usmani, was the Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband and Taqi Usmani migrated to Pakistan with his family after the partition of India in 1948.

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Pakistan
Category
Writers
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Writer / Author
Status
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Born 1943 · age 83

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