PM Shehbaz, CDF Asim Munir most influential figures of Muslim world

The Royal Islamic Center for Strategic Studies in Jordan has released a list of the 500 most influential people in the Muslim world, with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif and Chief of Defense Force Chief of Staff Marshal Asim Munir.

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman also top the current list. For the first time, five personalities have been jointly selected for the first position in the list.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is also among the five most influential figures in the Muslim world, while Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is fourth on the list, Jordan’s King Abdullah II is fifth, and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani is sixth. United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and King Mohammed VI of Morocco were also included in the list of influential Muslim figures.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Syrian President Ahmed Salad were also on the list. Pakistan’s famous religious scholars Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani and Maulana Tariq Jameel are also among the 500 influential people. The list also named Dr Hosam Abu Safiya, the former director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, as Person of the Year, and Fatima Zahra Shehbadi, a student who survived an attack on a school in Minab, Iran, as Woman of the Year.