Sarwar Kamal Azizi

Maulana Sarwar Kamal Azizi
Ameer, Nizam-e-Islam Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 September 2019
Personal details
Born	1947 (age 78–79) Padua Union, Lohagara, Chittagong
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Party	Nizam-e-Islam Party
Alma mater	Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya
Main interest(s)	Politics
Religious life
Denomination	Sunni Islam
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Movement	Deobandi

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 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

1. 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.
2. Ahmed Shah (30 December 2019). "Nezame Islam Party Conference Held in Chittagong". NTV.