Abdul Aziz Ghazi
Abdul Aziz Ghazi | |
|---|---|
| Chancellor of Jamia Faridia | |
| Assumed office 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Muhammad Abdullah |
| Imam and Khatib of Lal Masjid | |
| Assumed office 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Muhammad Abdullah (Imam) Abdul Rashid Ghazi (Khatib) |
| Chancellor of Jamia Hafsa | |
| Assumed office 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Muhammad Abdullah |
| Chief Executive of Jamia Faridia | |
| Assumed office 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Abdul Rashid Ghazi |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 10 January 1960 |
| Children | 1 |
| Parent |
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| Citizenship | Pakistani |
| Alma mater | Jamia Farooqia Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia |
| Relations | Abdul Rashid Ghazi (brother) |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Movement | Deobandi |
| Muslim leader | |
| Teacher | Saleemullah Khan |
| Military career | |
| Battles / wars | Soviet–Afghan War Siege of Lal Masjid |
Abdul Aziz Ghazi (born 10 January 1960) is a Pakistani Islamic scholar and Islamist dissident belonging to the Deobandi movement within Sunni Islam, who serves as both the Imam and Khatib of Lal Masjid in Islamabad, which was the site of a siege in 2007 with the Pakistani army.
Aziz also serves as the Chancellor & Chief Executive of Jamia Faridia and Jamia Hafsa, two influential Deobandi Islamic seminaries in Islamabad.
He is the son of Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi, and elder brother of Abdul Rashid Ghazi.
Aziz was arrested during Operation Sunrise but was later released by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2009 and acquitted in 2013.