Sead Nasufović (; born 22 June 1979) is an

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ic cleric and since July 2016 the new

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(''Reis ul-Ulema'') of

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Biography

He was born on 22 June 1979 in

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, today a part of

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, to

parents. He finished middle school in his hometown, and graduated from the Madrasa "Gazi Isa-beg"

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. He graduated from several faculties where he acquired the following titles: graduate Islamic theologian, graduate Islamic pedagogue, master of Islamic pedagogy, graduate philologist, master philologist. He is currently a doctoral student at the

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in the module for literature. He was an imam in mosques in Bijelo Polje,

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and Novi Pazar. He worked as a professor at the Madrasa "Sinan-beg" in Novi Pazar. He was the president of the Constitutional Court of the Islamic Community of Serbia.

Grand Mufti

In June 2016, at the session of the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Community of Serbia held in Novi Pazar, the entire Riyaset of the Islamic Community of Serbia, headed by the Grand Mufti, Adem Zilkić, was relieved of his duties, as well as the Mufti of Serbia, Muhamed Jusufspahić. Abdullah Numan was appointed the new Mufti of Serbia. The new Mufti of

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(Hasib Suljović) and the new mufti of

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(Nedžmedin Sćipi) were also elected. Until the election of the new Grand Mufti, it was decided that the Islamic Community of Serbia should be led by a commission composed of three muftis (Serbian, Sandžak and Preševo). Sead Nusufović was elected the new Grand Mufti on 2 July 2016, and he was solemnly enthroned in the Bajrakli mosque in

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. He should remain in that position until 2021.

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Grand Mufti

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