Pirzada Pirzada is historically described as official owners of Sufi mausoleums and shrines in Muslim lands, with their earliest mentions being in Baghdad, Iraq, during the period of the Ilkhanate, Timurids and Mamluks. Often a Pirzada was a descendan ...

Md. Abbas Siddiqui (born 1987) is an Islamic scholar, social activist and Indian politician who founded the

Indian Secular Front The Indian Secular Front (abbreviation: ISF) officially known as All India Secular Front is an Indian political party formed in West Bengal by Abbas Siddiqui, an influential cleric of the shrine of Furfura Sharif in Hooghly district. History ...

political party in 2021. He is a cleric of the

Furfura Sharif Furfura Sharif (also known as Furfura, and Furfura Darbar Sharif) is a village in Jangipara community development block of Srirampore subdivision in Hooghly District in the state of West Bengal, India. It is a holy place for some Bengali Musli ...

in Hooghly,

West Bengal West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabi ...

and is the scion of the Siddique family, which is the founder and custodian of the

Early life

Abbas Siddiqui was born to

Ali Akbar Siddiqui. He is the great-grandson of

Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique Moḥammad Abū Bakr Ṣiddīque al-Qurayshī (15 April 1845 – 17 March 1939) was a Bengali Islamic scholar and the inaugural Pir of Furfura Sharif in West Bengal. He is regarded by his followers, who are scattered across eastern India and Bang ...

who established the ''Silsila-e-Furfura'' (''Order of Furfura Sharif'') and is the nephew of Toha Siddiqui. Siddiqui has studied

Islamic Theology Schools of Islamic theology are various Islamic schools and branches in different schools of thought regarding creed. The main schools of Islamic theology include the extant Mu'tazili, Ash'ari, Maturidi, and Athari schools; the extinct ones ...

from Furfura Fatehia Senior Madrasah.

Political career

On 21 January 2021 he formed his party ''Indian Secular Front'' which will be contesting in the 2021 West Bengal Elections. Initially they planned to join hands with

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leader

Asaduddin Owaisi Asaduddin Owaisi (born 13 May 1969) is an Indian politician who is serving as the third and current president of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) since 2008. He is a five time Member of Parliament (India), Member of Parliame ...

. However, that plan faltered and instead he joined hands with the Left Front (comprising various

communist Communism () is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, di ...

parties) and the

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to form the

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. His party

contested on a borrowed symbol from Rashtriya Secular Majlis Party (RSMP) which is a Bihar-based party. In 2021, Siddiqui called for beheading as punishment for disrespecting the Quran.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Siddiqui, Abbas Living people Leaders of political parties in India People from Hooghly district Indian Islamic religious leaders Bengali Muslim scholars of Islam 21st-century Bengalis Activists from West Bengal 1987 births Indian Secular Front politicians