Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui is an academic and political activist. He was born in Delhi in 1939, migrated to Pakistan in late 1947 and moved to the UK in 1964. As leader of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain - which he co-founded in 1992 - and director of one of the oldest Muslim think-tanks in Britain, the Muslim Institute - which he co-founded in 1973 - established at a time when many first generation Muslims were building Islamic institutions in Britain.

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  • Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui is an academic and political activist. He was born in Delhi in 1939, migrated to Pakistan in late 1947 and moved to the UK in 1964. As leader of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain - which he co-founded in 1992 - and director of one of the oldest Muslim think-tanks in Britain, the Muslim Institute - which he co-founded in 1973 - established at a time when many first generation Muslims were building Islamic institutions in Britain. Dr Siddiqui claims to have met Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi and much of the early Jamaat-e-Islami and Muslim Brotherhood leadership. Rejecting their methodologies, he forged a close relationship with Iran meeting the more radical late Ayatullah Khomeini and many in the revolutionary Iranian leadership. This explains some reports that the Institute was funded by the Iranian government. (en)
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  • Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui is an academic and political activist. He was born in Delhi in 1939, migrated to Pakistan in late 1947 and moved to the UK in 1964. As leader of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain - which he co-founded in 1992 - and director of one of the oldest Muslim think-tanks in Britain, the Muslim Institute - which he co-founded in 1973 - established at a time when many first generation Muslims were building Islamic institutions in Britain. (en)
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  • Ghayasuddin Siddiqui (en)
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