Honourable Justice

Justice

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. Tanzil-ur-Rahman, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, (born 1928) is a prominent Pakistani jurist

Jurist

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  and scholar of Islamic studies

Islamic studies

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. He was the chief justice

Chief Justices of the Federal Shariat Court

The Chief Justice heads the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan. These are the names of the Chief Justices of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan, which came into being in 1980.-List: Temporal Order...

 of the Federal Shariat Court (1990-92), member of the Islamic Research Council and the Council of Islamic Ideology

Council of Islamic Ideology

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(1980-84). He is the author of numerous books on the codification of Islamic law.

Life and Education

Justice Tanzil-ur-Rahman was born on 16 June 1928 at Nagina, District Binjor, U.P. India. In 1948, he graduated from Agra University and migrated to Pakistan. He completed his M.A. (1952), LL.B. (1954), and Ph.D. in Islamic Law (1971) from Karachi University. He was awarded Tamgah-i-Imtiaz in 1971 by the Government of Pakistan for his contribution to Islamic Law.