His Eminence Justice Sheikh Muhammad Taqi usmani

His Eminence Justice Sheikh Muhammad Taqi usmani
Leading Scholar of Islamic Jurisprudence

Justice Sheikh Muhammad Taqi Usmani is a leading scholar of Islamic jurisprudence. He is considered to be the intellectual leader of the Deobandi movement.

Leading Islamic Finance Scholar

Usmani's chief influence comes from his position as a global authority on the issue of Islamic finance. He has served on the boards and as chairman of over a dozen Islamic banks and financial institutions, and currently leads the International Shariah Council for the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions

(AAOIFI) in Bahrain. He is also deputy chairman of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, one of the highest legal bodies in the Muslim world.

Deobandi Figurehead

Usmani is very important as a figurehead in the Deobandi movement—one of the most successful of the Islamic revivalist initiatives of the past century. He was born in Deoband, India, to Mufti Muhammad Shafi (the former Grand Mufti of Pakistan) who founded the Darul 'Uloom Deoband, a leading center of Islamic education in Pakistan.