Zia Uddin

'''Mufakkir al-Islām Ḍiyā' ad-Dīn ibn Muqaddas ʿAlī (; born 4 April 1941), better known simply as Zia Uddin () or reverentially as Nazim Saheb Huzur''' (), is a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, politician and educationist. He is currently the president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh and Azad Dini Adarah-e-Talim, and an advisor to Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh. Uddin is also the director of Jamia Madania Angura-Muhammadpur and a member of Al-Haiatul Ulya Lil-Jamiatil Qawmia Bangladesh's permanent committee. He has played important roles in the 2013 Shapla Square protests and Khatme Nabuwwat movement, and has spoken out against the construction of the Tipaimukh Dam. Provided by Wikipedia