Shakir Ali Noori


Shakir Ali Noorie is an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar, preacher and current President of Sunni Dawate Islami, a non-political, religious organisation in Mumbai, India. He has been ranked among the top 500 Muslims in The 500 Most Influential Muslims published by Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre.

Life and career

Noorie says that he was born in Junagadh, Gujarat in India. Dawat-e-Islami held weekly conferences in Mumbai from 1988. In 1991, it held its first annual conference in India. It is said that a dispute about the 1991 conference, led to a split in Dawat-e-Islami in 1991 or 1992. The Indian branch became independent as Sunni Dawat-e-Islami. At the time, Noori was the negran of the Indian branch of Dawat-e-Islami, and so became head of SDI. He is therefore described as founding SDI.
Noorie has been ranked among The 500 Most Influential Muslims by Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre since 2013, with the omission of 2018.

Sunni Dawate Islami

Sunni Dawate Islami is a non-political and religious organisation in Mumbai , India. It holds an annual conference in Mumbai, which is said to be attended by between 150,000 and 300,000 people; the first day is reserved for women. Followers of Dawat-e-Islami wear green turbans; followers of Sunni Dawate Islami wear white turbans.
In 2008, SDI had a European headquarters at Noor Hall in Preston, England, and centres in some other English towns, including: Blackburn, Bolton, Leicester and Manchester. SDI also had a North American headquarters in Chicago. By 2008, SDI had founded 12 madrasas in India. In 2020, SDI says that in India it manages 50 madrasas and 15 schools that teach in English. SDI says it has an educational centre in Bolton, and an educational centre in Mauritius.

Literary works

His works include: