Nuriddin Xoliqnazar

Nuriddin Xoliqnazar was born in 1968 in the town of Asaka in the Andijan region. He graduated from the Mir-i Arab madrasa in Bukhara in 1992, the Imam al-Bukhari Tashkent Islamic Institute in 1998 and Fergana State University in 2007.

He served as imam-khatib of the Ahmadali Makhdum Friday mosque in Asaka and then of the Oqtepa mosque in Tashkent. He taught at the Kukeldash madrasa in Tashkent and at the Sayyid Muhiddin Makhdum madrasa in the Andijan region, and was chief imam-khatib of the Andijan region.

In August 2019 he was appointed chief imam-khatib of Tashkent. On 19 October 2021 an enlarged session of the Council of Ulama of the Muslim Board of Uzbekistan elected him Chief Mufti of Uzbekistan and chairman of the Board, following the death of the previous mufti, Usmankhan Alimov.

In 2023 he was admitted to the International Council of Muslim Scholars, and in January 2024 he became a member of the Muslim Council of Elders in Abu Dhabi. In 2025 he received the Supreme Degree Imam al-Bukhari Order. Answers to questions and sermons are published on official channels under the name “Muftiy Nuriddin domla”, including on Telegram.