Ibrahim Zakzaky

Ibrahim Yaqoub El Zakzaky is an outspoken Shia Muslim cleric in Nigeria, and head of Nigerias Islamic Movement . Zakzaky founded Islamic Movement in late 1970s when he was a student at Ahmadu Bello University and began propagating Shia Islam around 1979, at the time of the Iranian revolutionwhich saw Irans monarchy overthrown and replaced with an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Khomeini. Zakzaky believed that the establishment of a republic along similar religious lines in Nigeria would be feasible. He has been detained several times due to accusations of civil disobedience or recalcitrance under military regimes in Nigeria during the 1980s and 1990s and is still viewed with suspicion or as a threat by Nigerian authorities. In December 2015 Nigerian Army raided his residence in Zaria, massacred hundreds of his followers and since then he remained under state detention in the nations capital.

Ibrahim Zakzaky was born onMay 1953 , in Zaria, Kaduna State. He attended the Provincial Arabic School, Zaria , the School for Arabic Studies, Kano from 19711976 where he obtained the Grade II Certificate, and the Ahmadu Bello University , Zaria where he bagged first class bachelors degree in Economics. The degree was denied to him by the university authorities due to his Islamic activities. During his university days, He was active in students Islamic unionism where he became the secretarygeneral of the Muslim Students Society of Nigeria in the Main Campus of the university , and later became Vice President of the National Body of the MSSN in 1979. He is married to Zeenah and with whom he had six children.

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