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SHEIKHULISLAM ALLAHSHUKUR HUMMAT PASHAZADE
CHAIRMAN
 
SALMAN MUSA MUSAYEV
 FIRST DEPUTY CHAIRMAN, MUFTI
 
SABIR HUSEYN HASANLI
 DEPUTY CHAIRMAN
 
FUAD IZZET NURULLAYEV
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN
 
GAMAR AYDIN JAVADLI
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN
 
RASHAD SULEYMAN ALIYARLI
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN
 
SIMRAN SEYFADDIN HASANOV
CHIEF OF STAFF
 

History
* The period of the Russian Empire
In 1823 the Spiritual Administration of Transcaucasian Muslims and the post of Sheikh-ul-Islam were established in Transcaucasus. Akhund of Tbilisi (capital of Georgia) Muhammad Ali Huseynzadeh was appointed as the first Sheikh-ul-Islam of the Caucasus. From that date, all the Sheikh-ul-Islams of the Caucasus came from Azerbaijan.

Spiritual Administration of Transcaucasian Muslims included all the Muslims living in the Southern territories of the Russian Empire, namely, Northern and Western Azerbaijan, Kars, Ardahan, Batumi, Krasnodar, Terek and Georgia.

Soon, in 1832 the Transcaucasian Muslims` Spiritual Administration created position of Mufti (head of the Sunni Muslims) of the Caucasus in the Administration, to avoid sectarian discrimination in Islam.

Both of the Sheikh-ul-Islam (Shia leader) and the Mufti (Sunni) used to be appointed by the Caucasian successor of the Emperor, and the activities of the clergy were under supervision of the regime. The Administration was considered as a branch of government, and the clergy were treated as the state workers.
In order to put the Islamic ideology in benefit of the empire, the state issued a special Charter for the Caucasian Shia and Sunni clerics. Sheikh-ul-Islams, qazis and akhunds of Shia, and muftis, imams, efendis of Sunni denominations, as well as ordinary mullahs, muezzins, and other muslim clergy were obliged to work according to the Charter.