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Deobandi leader: Scholar Leading scholar of Islamic jurisprudence who is considered to be the intellectual leader of the Deobandi movement. Veteran figure of Islamic banking and finance. Traditional Sunni, Hanafi, Deobandi Movement 27 (2009) 31 (2010) 4 32 (2011) 1 32 (2012) 25 (2013/14) 7 19 (2014/15) 6 22 (2016) 3 6 (2017) 16 7 (2018) 1 6 ...
Bakht Khan: Indian Muslim commander during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Husein Gradaščević: Leader of the Great Bosnian uprising. Muhammad Ahmad 1844–1885: A Muslim religious leader and militant in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Omar Mukhtar 1858–1931: A Libyan leader of the resistance against the Italian occupation forces in Libya.
Islamic religious leaders have traditionally been people who, as part of the clerisy, mosque, or government, performed a prominent role within their community or nation. However, in the modern contexts of Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries as well as secularised Muslim states like Turkey, and Bangladesh, the religious leadership may take ...
A caliph is the supreme religious and political leader of an Islamic state known as the caliphate. [1] [2] Caliphs (also known as 'Khalifas') led the Muslim Ummah as political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, [3] and widely-recognised caliphates have existed in various forms for most of Islamic history. [4]
This is a list of the top-level leaders for religious groups with at least 50,000 adherents, and that led anytime since January 1, 2001. It should likewise only name leaders listed on other articles and lists.
Hamida Dakane – first Black and first Muslim to serve in the North Dakota House of Representatives [27] Keith Ellison – first Muslim congressman from Minnesota [28] Louis Farrakhan – leader of the Nation of Islam; George Bethune English (1787–1828) – American adventurer, diplomat, soldier, and convert to Islam.
The Muslim 100: The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of the Most Influential Muslims in History is a 2008 book, written by Muhammad Mojlum Khan and published by Kube Publishing, listing the biographies of the 100 most influential Muslims in history.
Portrait Head of government or state Country Status In office (first time) Benazir Bhutto Pakistan Prime Minister of Pakistan: 2 December 1988 – 6 August 1990