Justice Sheikh Muhammad Taqi Usmani is a leading scholar of Islamic jurisprudence. He is considered to be the intellectual leader of the Deobandi movement. He specialises in financial matters and presented a paper in January 2010’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos, entitled: “Post-Crisis Reforms: Some Points to Ponder”.
Usmani’s chief influence comes from his position as a global authority on the issue of Islamic finance. He has served on the boards, and as chairman, of over a dozen Islamic banks and financial institutions, and currently leads the International Shariah Council for the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) in Bahrain. He is also deputy chairman of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, one of the highest legal bodies in the Muslim World.
Usmani is very important as a figurehead in the Deobandi movement—one of the most successful of the Islamic revivalist initiatives of the past century. Usmani was born in Deoband, India, the son of Mufti Muhammad Shafi (the former Grand Mufti of Pakistan) who founded the Darul ‘Uloom Karachi, a leading center of Islamic education in Pakistan.
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The Arab Spring events have not significantly affected the influence of the Mufti Usmani.
Citizen of: Pakistan
Birth: 1 January 1943 (Age: 70)
Source of Influence: Scholarly
Influence: One of the most senior figures in Islamic finance, and a leading scholar of the Deobandi movement
School of Thought: Hanafi, Traditional Sunni
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