Mufakkir-e-Islam Allama Zia Uddin Nazim Saheb Huzur | |
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| Advisor, Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh | |
| Assumed office 15 November 2020 | |
| President, Azad Dini Adarah-e-Talim | |
| Assumed office 15 June 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Husayn Ahmad Barkuti |
| President, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh | |
| Assumed office 8 April 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Abdul Momin Imambari |
| Director, Jamia Madania Angura-Muhammadpur | |
| Assumed office 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Shihab Uddin |
| Personal | |
| Born | 4 April 1941 Kakardia, Beanibazar, Sylhet District |
| Religion | Islam |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Children | 7 |
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| Era | Modern |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Creed | Maturidi |
| Movement | Deobandi |
| Education | Darul Uloom Hathazari |
| Tariqa | Chishti (Sabiri-Imdadi) Naqshbandi Qadri Suhrawardy |
| Muslim leader | |
| Disciple of | Abdul Matin Chowdhury |
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Influenced | |
Mufakkir al-Islām Ḍiyā' ad-Dīn ibn Muqaddas ʿAlī (Arabic: مفكر الإسلام ضياء الدين بن مقدس علي; born 4 April 1941), better known simply as Zia Uddin (Bengali: জিয়া উদ্দিন) or reverentially as Nazim Saheb Huzur (Bengali: নাজিম সাহেব হুজুর), is a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, politician and educationist. He is currently the president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh and Azad Dini Adarah-e-Talim, and an advisor to Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh. Uddin is also the director of Jamia Madania Angura-Muhammadpur and a member of Al-Haiatul Ulya Lil-Jamiatil Qawmia Bangladesh's permanent committee. He has played important roles in the 2013 Shapla Square protests and Khatme Nabuwwat movement, and has spoken out against the construction of the Tipaimukh Dam.