Abdul Aleem Siddiqi

Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddique (3 April 1892 – 22 August 1954) was an Islamic scholar from Meerut, India. He was taught by Ahmad Raza Khan.

Siddiqui travelled continuously for 40 years. He visited Singapore where he pioneered the All Malaya Muslim Missionary Society, now known as Jamiyah, in 1932. He also travelled to Hejaz, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, Ceylon, China, Japan, Philippines, Mauritius, Madagascar, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Belgium, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, France, England, West Indies, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, United States of America and Canada. The All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society (now known as Jamiyah Singapore) has built a mosque named after him.

In 1935, in Mombasa (Kenya), Abdul Aleem Siddique met with playwright George Bernard Shaw, and they enjoyed an exchange of thoughts in which Shaw called Abdul Aleem Siddique “a learned sage”.

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