Allahshukur Pashazade
| Allahşükür Paşazadə | |
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Allahshükür Pashazade meeting Vladimir Putin in Baku on 10 January 2001.
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| Religion | Islam |
| School | Shia |
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| Born |
August 26, 1949 Cil, Lankaran Rayon, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Title | Sheikh ul-Islam and Grand Mufti of the Caucasus |
| Period in office | 1980 – present |
| Successor | Incumbent |
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| Post | Sheikh ul-Islam and Grand Mufti of the Caucasus |
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Haji Allahshükür Hummat Pashazade (Azerbaijani: Allahşükür Hümmət Paşazadə/الله شکور پاشازاده) Sheikh ul-Islam and Grand Mufti of the Caucasus which includes his native Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Georgia, and Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, Chechnya, Karachay–Cherkessia, and Adygea in the Russian Federation. He is also the current chairman of the Religious Council of the Caucasus.
Allahshükür Pashazade was born in Cil, Lankaran Rayon, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (today the Republic of Azerbaijan) on August 26, 1949. He got his primary religious education from the local religious clergy in the city of Lankaran. In 1968, he went to the Uzbekistan Soviet Socialist Republic (today the independent Republic of Uzbekistan) where he entered the Mir-i-Arab Madrasah in Bukhara and later relocated to Tashkent where he finished his religious education in Tashkent State University in 1975.
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