Sarwar Kamal Azizi
Sarwar Kamal Azizi | |
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Azizi in 2024 | |
| Ameer of Nizam-e-Islam Party | |
| Assumed office 4 September 2019 | |
| General Secretary | Abu Taher Khan |
| Preceded by | office established |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1947 (age 78–79) |
| Party | Nizam-e-Islam Party |
| Alma mater | Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni Islam |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Movement | Deobandi |
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Sarwar Kamal Azizi (born 1947) is a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar and politician. He is a former Nayeb-e-Ameer of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh and currently serves as the President of the Bangladesh Nizam-e-Islam Party. He is also the Director of Shah Waliullah Academy, Chittagong, and the Director General of Jamiatul Anwar Hemayat-ul-Islam Qawmi Madrasa in Padua.
Biography
Sarwar Kamal Azizi was born in 1947 in the Nayapara area of Padua village under Lohagara Upazila in the Chittagong District. He completed his primary education at a local Islamiya Qawmi Madrasa and later enrolled at Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya, where he completed Dawrah-e-Hadith (equivalent to a master’s degree). Alongside religious education, he also obtained a general academic degree.
He was one of the key office-bearers of Jamiat-e-Talaba-e-Arabia, a Muslim student organization. In 1981, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Central Committee of the Nezame Islam Party. In 1984, he became Joint Convener of the party’s central committee. In 2007, he served as Senior Vice President of the party. On 4 September 2019, he was elected Ameer of the party at a meeting of the Majlis-e-Shura.[1][2]
See also
- List of Deobandi scholars
References
- ^ White Paper: 2000 Days of Fundamentalist Communal Terrorism in Bangladesh. Mahakhali, Dhaka-1212: People’s Commission on Investigation of Fundamentalist and Communal Terrorism. February 2022. pp. 109–111.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: year (link) - ^ Ahmed Shah (30 December 2019). "Nezame Islam Party Conference Held in Chittagong". NTV.