Mufti Saidmukarram Abdulkodirzoda has served as the state Grand Mufti of Tajikistan since 2010, leading the Shuroi Ulamo (Council of Scholars), which is the sole fatwa-issuing body in Tajikistan. He is also the Director of the Islamic Center of Tajikistan and has represented the country at the International Islamic Fiqh Academy since 2012. Born in 1963, Mufti Abdulkodirzoda studied a bachelor’s and master’s in Hadith and Tafsir from the International Islamic University of Islamabad, and a doctorate in Tajik literature from the National University of Tajikistan. In September 2024, he was injured in an attack with a machete near the central mosque in Dushanbe. The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that he sustained minor injuries and did not require hospitalization.