Bangladesh Islami University is a

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located at Gopibag, in

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

History

Bangladesh Islami University was opened in 2006 by

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Begum Khaleda Zia Khaleda Zia (; born Khaleda Khanam Putul in 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from March 1991 to March 1996, and again from June 2001 to October 2006. She was the first female prime minister of Ba ...

at the request of

Syed Kamaluddin Zafree Kamaluddin Abdullah Zafree ( ar, كمال الدين عبد الله الظفري, bn, কামালুদ্দীন আব্দুল্লাহ জাফরী; born 5 March 1945) is an Islamic scholar from Bangladesh. He is the founder o ...

, a prominent

Islamic scholar In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; feminine: ''alimah'' ingularand ''aalimath'' lural are the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of reli ...

later became a member of the governing body of the university.

References

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