Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan ( ur, , ; born 31 December 1934 in Noorpur Sethi, British India – died 7 December 2017 in

Rawalpindi Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan's ...

, Pakistan) was an Islamic scholar and spiritual leader of the Naqshbandia Owaisiah order of

Sufism Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, r ...

. He belonged to Awan tribe. As a ''mufassir'', he authored four exegeses ('' tafsir'') of the Qur'an, including ''Asrar at-Tanzeel''. Awan was dean of the Siqarah Education System and patron of the magazine ''Al-Murshid'' and of the Al-Falah Foundation.

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1934 births 2017 deaths Pakistani Sufi religious leaders Awan People from Chakwal District {{Pakistan-reli-bio-stub