Zakir Naik

Indian Islamic preacher

Born
18 October 1965, Mumbai
Age
61
Zakir Naik
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Zakir Naik (born 18 October 1965) is an Indian Islamic preacher and physician from Mumbai who has held Saudi Arabian citizenship since May 2017. He studied at Kishinchand Chellaram College and Topiwala National Medical College and BYL Nair Hospital, and he works in da'wah and comparative religion, lecturing in English, Hindi, Indonesian and Arabic. He is president of the Islamic Research Foundation International and received the King Faisal Prize in Service to Islam in 2015. His YouTube channel had about 4.23 million subscribers in February 2025.

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