Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam جمیعت علماءِ اسلام | |
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| Abbreviation | JUI |
| Historical leaders | |
| Founder | Shabbir Ahmad Usmani |
| Founded | 26 October 1919 26 October 1945 |
| Split from | Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind |
| Succeeded by | Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh |
| Ideology | Islamism Islamic fundamentalism Religious nationalism Religious conservatism Pro-Pakistan |
| Religion | Sunni Islam (Deobandi) |
| Election symbol | |
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| Party flag | |
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Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Urdu: جمیعت علماءِ اسلام, abbreviated as JUI, translated as Assembly of Islamic Clergy) is a Deobandi Sunni Muslim organization that was founded on 26 October 1945 by Shabbir Ahmad Usmani as a pro-Pakistan offshoot of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUH). It has run candidates for office in Pakistani provincial and national elections, and splintered into several groups in 1980, 2007, and 2020.
In March 2019, after the decline of a competing faction JUI-S, the Election Commission of Pakistan reportedly allowed Moulana Fazal-ur-Rehman to have his JUI-F party use the old name of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam with no added letter F.