Muhiddin Kabiri

Muhiddin Kabiri (Tajik: Муҳиддин Кабирӣ; 20 July 1965) is a Tajik moderate Muslim politician, the chairman of the opposition Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan.^[1][2]

Kaibiri was born in the Faizobod District in a devout Muslim family. In 1995-97 Kabiri was a businessman in Moscow. Upon returning to Dushanbe in 1997 he became a close ally of Said Abdullo Nuri, the leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan. In 2000, he became deputy leader of the Party, and was elected in the Tajik Parliament in February 2005 as an IRPT member. After Nuri's death in 2006 he assumed the position of the Party leader.

Kabiri is fluent in Tajik, Persian, Arabic, Russian, and English.

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