Manzoor Ahmad Mengal (born 1973), is a Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholar and former Caretaker Chief Minister of Balochistan a supporter of
Jamiat Ulema-e Islam (F)
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan also known the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam or simply as Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) (; ; JUI (F)) is an Islamic fundamentalist political party in Pakistan. Established as the ''Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam'' in 1945, it is th ...
.
Education and career
Mengal received his early education from a government school. Then in 1973 he joined the madrassa in his village. After completing the Quran, he traveled to
Tando Muhammad Khan
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in 1979 and enrolled in Darul Uloom Muhammadiya Madrasa. He later enrolled at
Jamia Farooqia. Then he remained associated with the field of hadith. He served as Imam at
Jamia Farooqia for 28 years. During this period, he recited the
Quran
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28 times during the obligatory prayers. He completed his
PhD
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in 1992 from
University of Sindh
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in a short time (two months) under the supervision of
Nizamuddin Shamzai
Nizamuddin Shamzai (also Nizam al-Din Shamzai, 12 July 1952 – 30 May 2004) was a pro-Taliban Pakistani Deobandi Sunni Islamic scholar and the senior professor of hadith at the Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia. He was considered "one of the most import ...
. He memorized
Sahih Bukhari
() is the first hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. Compiled by Islamic scholar al-Bukhari () in the format, the work is valued by Sunni Muslims, alongside , as the most authentic after the Qur'an.
Al-Bukhari organized the bo ...
in
Saudi Arabia
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in just a month and a half. He speaks in different languages like
Balochi,
Brahui,
Pashto
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,
Urdu
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,
Arabic
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and
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
.
Controversy
In 2021, following the annual
Aurat March
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The first Aurat Marches were begun by women's collec ...
on International Women's Day, Mengal repeated allegations of blasphemy propagated by anti-feminist elements in Pakistan.
Books
* ''Tuhfatul Manazir''
See also
*
Muhammad Ilyas Ghuman
References
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1962 births
Deobandis
University of Sindh alumni
People from Khuzdar District
Living people