Nurul Islam Jihadi

Nurul Islam Jihadi (Bengali: নুরুল ইসলাম জিহাদী; 1948 – 29 November 2021) was a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, educator and spiritual figure. He was the Secretary General of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh and International Majlis-e Tahaffuz-e-Khatm-e Nobuwat Bangladesh, Chancellor and Shaykh al-Hadith of Al Jamiatul Islamia Makhjanul Uloom. He was also a member of the Majlis-e-Shura of Darul Uloom Hathazari and Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh, founder and patron of many mosques and madrasas, including Jamia Khatamunnabiyyin in United Kingdom.

After completing his education, he started his career as a teacher at Kaigram Madrasa in Patiya Upazila. After teaching in Kaigram madrasa for one year, he was called to Babunagar madrasa and became a teacher there. After teaching at Babunagar Madrasa for a few years, he taught at Ashraful Ulum Bara Katara Madrasa in Dhaka till 1982. At this time, after the death of his father, he went to his home and rejoined Babunagar Madrasa. On 10 July 1984, he founded Al Jamiatul Islamia Makhjanul Uloom in Khilgaon, Dhaka district. He was the Chancellor and Shaykh al-Hadith of this seminary. He has been serving as an important member of Majlis-e-Shura of Darul Uloom Hathazari and Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh. In 1966, he founded a non-political organization called "Islamic Movement Council" to resist Islamophobes. He was in the companionship of Siddique Ahmad for a long time. He was the Secretary General of International Majlis-e Tahaffuj-e Khatme Nabuwat Bangladesh, established in 1990 with the aim of accelerating the anti-Ahmadiyya movement and the Khatme Nabuyat movement. On 26 December 2020, he was elected Secretary General of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh following the demise of Nur Hossain Kasemi in December 2020. He remained in this post until his death.

Jihadi was born in 1948, to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Dhurung in Fatikchhari, Chittagong District, East Bengal. His father's name was Abdur Rashid.