Allahshukur Hummat Pashazade{{Efn|{{langx|az|Allahşükür Hümmət Paşazadə}}}} (born 26 August 1949) is the Shaykh al-Islam of the Caucasus which includes the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Georgia, and Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, Chechnya, Karachay–Cherkessia, and Adygea in the Russian Federation.[http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=106636 Sheikh-ul-islam Haji Allahshukur Pashazadeh marks his 60th birthday] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311005413/http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=106636 |date=2012-03-11 }} He is also the chairman of the Religious Council of the Caucasus.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/072503EAJC.shtml |title=Broadening Powers of Supreme Mufti of Caucasus |access-date=2009-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516051137/http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/072503EAJC.shtml |archive-date=2008-05-16 |url-status=dead }}

Biography

Pashazade was born in Cil, Lankaran Rayon, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (today the Republic of Azerbaijan) on August 26, 1949, and is of Talysh descent.{{Cite web|url=http://www.eurasiareview.com/28022017-is-baku-transforming-azerbaijan-from-a-shiia-to-a-sunni-muslim-country-oped/|title=Is Baku Transforming Azerbaijan from a Shiia to a Sunni Muslim Country? – OpEd|date=28 February 2017}} He got his primary religious education in the city of Lankaran.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023|reason=Unsourced WP:BLP paragraph}} In 1968 he went to the Uzbekistan Soviet Socialist Republic (today the independent Republic of Uzbekistan) where he entered the Mir-i-Arab Madrasah in Bukhara and later relocated to Tashkent where he finished his religious education in Tashkent State University in 1975.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023|reason=Unsourced WP:BLP paragraph}}

He returned to Azerbaijan in 1975 and became the acting secretary of the Caucasian Muslims Office, and Akhund and deputy chief of the Taza Pir Mosque in the Azerbaijani capital Baku.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023|reason=Unsourced WP:BLP paragraph}} In 1980 he was elected chairman of the Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Transcaucasia and became Sheikh ul-Islam.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023|reason=Unsourced WP:BLP paragraph}} After the collapse and dissolution of the Soviet Union and independence of Azerbaijan, in 1992, he was elected chairman of the Supreme Religious Board of Caucasian peoples of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, Chechnya, Karachay-Cherkessia, and Adygea.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023|reason=Unsourced WP:BLP paragraph}}

Pashazade is a member of the Management Board of World Islamic Congress and the Management Board of Eurasia Islamic Council, among a number of other international organizations.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023|reason=Unsourced WP:BLP paragraph}} He was elected co-chair of CIS Interreligious Council in 2004.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023|reason=Unsourced WP:BLP paragraph}}

On November 21, 2009, he was included in a book called 500 Most Influential Muslims of World.{{Cite web |url=http://en.trend.az/news/official/chronicle/1585339.html |title=Azerbaijani president included in "500 most influential Muslims of world" book |access-date=2009-11-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722014829/http://en.trend.az/news/official/chronicle/1585339.html |archive-date=2011-07-22 |url-status=dead }}[http://xronika.az/main/8517-prezident-azerbajdzhana-voshel-v-knigu-500-samyx.html Президент Азербайджана вошел в книгу "500 самых влиятельных мусульман мира"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706131006/http://xronika.az/main/8517-prezident-azerbajdzhana-voshel-v-knigu-500-samyx.html |date=2011-07-06 }} {{in lang|ru}}