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Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

1951 - Today

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Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (born 19 February 1951) is a Pakistani–Canadian Islamic scholar and former politician. He is the founder and chief patron of Minhaj-ul-Quran International (MQI) since 1980. He also founded the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) and served as its leader from 1989 to 2019. Born in Jhang, West Punjab, Qadri studied classical Islamic sciences under numerous Islamic scholars throughout the Muslim world, gaining more than 500 ijazas and isnads in various fields of Islamic knowledge. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is the 9,468th most popular politician (up from 17,330th in 2024), the 54th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 119th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Pakistani Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri ranks 9,468 out of 19,576Before him are Hussein Onn, Giovanni Dandolo, John III, Duke of Bavaria, Francisco Sagasti, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, and Enrique Líster. After him are Zdravko Krivokapić, Georges Theunis, Kirill Razumovski, Odoardo Farnese, Isetnofret II, and Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri ranks 161Before him are Doug Collins, Ondrej Nepela, Vera Fischer, Ace Frehley, Jean-Jacques Goldman, and Marcel Iureș. After him are Li Hongzhi, Börje Salming, Bill Walker, Phankham Viphavanh, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, and Danilo Medina.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri ranks 54 out of 217Before him are Amrita Pritam (1919), Khema (-550), Krishna Sobti (1925), Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), Shujaat Hussain (1946), and Yahya Khan (1914). After him are Lokaksema (147), Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690), Rahman Baba (1632), Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), Dilip Kumar (1922), and Nek Chand (1924).

Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri ranks 28Before him are Gulzarilal Nanda (1898), Malik Ghulam Muhammad (1895), Khema (-550), Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), Shujaat Hussain (1946), and Yahya Khan (1914). After him are Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), Farooq Leghari (1940), Taxiles (-400), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (1988), Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904), and Shah Mahmood Qureshi (1956).