Sami ul Haq

Deobandi Movement
Key figures
Qasim Nanotvi · Rashid Gangohi Husain Madani · Mehmud Hasan Shabbir Usmani · Ashraf Ali Thanwi Anwar Kashmiri · Ilyas Kandhlawi Ubaidullah Sindhi · Taqi Usmani
Notable Institutions
Darul Uloom Deoband, India Mazahirul Uloom Saharanpur, India Hathazari Madrassah, Bangladesh Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama, India Darul Uloom Karachi, Pakistan Jamia Uloom ul Islamia, Pakistan Jamiah Darul Uloom Zahedan, Iran Darul Uloom London, England Darul Uloom New York, United States Darul Uloom Canada Madrasah In'aamiyyah, South Africa
Movements
Tablighi Jamaat Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Tehreek-e-Khatme Nabuwwat Sipah-e-Sahaba Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Taliban

Maulana Sami ul Haq (Urdu: مولانا سمیع الحق) is a Pakistani religious leader and a politician. He is known for his close ties to the Taliban and has been referred to as the "Father of the Taliban".^[1]^[2] He has also served as a member of the Senate of Pakistan.^[3]

Sami ul Haq is the chancellor of the Darul Uloom Haqqania, a Deobandi Islamic seminary which is the alma mater of several Taliban leaders.

Politically he is the leader of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam political party, known as JUI-S.

References

^ The Father of the Taliban: An Interview with Maulana Sami ul-Haq , Imtiaz Ali, Spotlight on Terror, The Jamestown Foundation, Volume 4, Issue 2, May 23, 2007
^ Maulana Sami ul-Haq: Father of the Taliban, Center for Strategic and International Studies Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, 27 Jan 2009
^ Senate of Pakistan - Maulana Sami ul Haq

Sources

Maulana Sami ul Haq - Khyber.org
Voices from the Whirlwind: Assessing Musharraf's Predicament, PBS.org
Pakistan religious schools get scrutiny, Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2009
Inside Islam's "terror schools", William Dalrymple, New Statesman, 28 March 2005
The 'university of holy war', Haroon Rashid, BBC Online, 2 October 2003
Pakistan: The Taliban takeover, Ziauddin Sardar, New Statesman, 30 April 2007
Education mullah style, Tony Cross, Radio France Internationale, 11 May 2008
EU snub for hardline Pakistan MP, BBC News Online, 20 April 2005
EU snub draws Pakistani protest, BBC News Online, 21 April 2005

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