Maulana Syed Ghulam Raza Naqvi is one of the founders of the Pakistani Shia vigilante movement Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP), in the early 1990s (1994 in some sources),[1] formed to counter and respond to Deobandi Sunni Muslim attacks.

Naqvi was educated in a Shia seminary in Najaf.[2] He died whilst on a pilgrimage to the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, Iran, on March 7, 2016.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Mariam Abou Zahab; Olivier Roy (2004). Islamist Networks: The Afghan-Pakistan Connection. Columbia University Press. pp. 45–. ISBN 978-0-231-13364-7.
  2. ↑ Nikki R Keddie; Rudolph P Matthee (2002). Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics. University of Washington Press. pp. 338–. ISBN 978-0-295-98206-9.
  3. ↑ "Ahlulbayt News Agency". Archived from the original on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2016.


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