Molavi Abdul Hamid
Male, Person
1947 –
Who is Molavi Abdul Hamid?
Molavi AbdolHamid Ismaeelzahi or Shaikh-ul-Islam Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi: is a Sunni theologian and the spiritual leader of the Sunni community in Iran. According to a biography published in his website he was born in 1947 in "Galougah" village, an area in the vicinity of Zahedan and educated in Badr-ul-Uloom Hammadiya Islamic seminary Rahimyarkhan, south Punjab, Pakistan.
After the death of former Sunni leader and member of expert assembly Molavi Abdolaziz Mollazadeh in 1987, Molavi Abdolhamid took the leadership of Grand Makki mosque, its seminary and other related vigorous religious institutions. Nowadays Makki and its joint institutions are the strongest Sunni religious institutions in Iran with significant political and social influence on Sunnis in Iran.
Molavi Abdolhamid is well known for his advocacy to Sunni right in Iran. Some of Iranian medias branded him as a moderate Sunni voice in the dominantly Shi'ites nation.
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