Muhammad Taqi Usmani
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. 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.
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- Born in
- Deoband
- Educated at
- University of the PunjabUniversity of KarachiDarul Uloom Karachi
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- 🏆 Order of Independence🏆 Sitara-i-Imtiaz
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1943
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