Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani elected as new president of AIMPLB
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Lucknow: Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani has been elected as the fifth President of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) during a two-day executive meeting held at Mhow in Indore, the official statement said.
Maulana Rahmani, who was serving as the board’s General Secretary, succeeds long-time president Maulana Syed Rabey Nadwi, who passed away in April at the age of 94.
According to the statement, the Board's newly- elected President also announced appointees for the vacant portfolios of the AIMPLB.
"Maulana Fazlur Raheem Mujaddidi was appointed the new General Secretary of AIMPLB, replacing the Board's previous General Secretary Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani," the statement added.
Maulana Rahmani is a close relative of Maulana Mujahid ul Islam Qasmi who was the third President of the AIMPLB.
Maulana Rahmani, originally from Bihar has been living in Hyderabad for the last about four decades. He is the founder head of the Islamic seminary Al Mahad ul Aali al Islami located on the outskirts of Hyderabad near Pahadi Shareef.
The Mahad has students from across India and its graduates are spread across European countries, North America and Australia.
He is also the Secretary General of the All India Fiqh Academy. He is considered as one of the foremost scholars of Islamic jurisprudence. He also played a key role in the recent instant triple talaq case.
Maulana Rahmani is a member of the Institute of Collective Ijtihad at the Islamic Fiqh Academy in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. He was invited by the government of South Africa to draft Islamic laws after the nation became independent of the apartheid rule in 1994.
