Sheikh Muhammad Sodiq Muhammad Yusuf

Sheikh Muhammad Sodiq Muhammad Yusuf (1952–2015) was a prominent Islamic scholar, Quran commentator, hadith scholar, jurist, and educator. He was born on April 15, 1952, in the Andijan region of Uzbekistan. He studied at the Mir Arab Madrasah in Bukhara, the Islamic Institute in Tashkent, and the Faculty of Islamic Da’wah in Libya. From 1989 to 1993, he served as the chairman of the Muslim Religious Board of Central Asia and Kazakhstan and as its mufti. He authored more than one hundred books and translations on Islamic sciences, including Tafsiri Hilol, Hadis va Hayot, Imon, and Ruhiy Tarbiya.