Background
He was the son of Muhammad-Yusuf qori (who died in 2004), who was the son of Muhammad-Ali scholar Andijani. He received his primary religious education from his father.
He was the son of Muhammad-Yusuf qori (who died in 2004), who was the son of Muhammad-Ali scholar Andijani. He received his primary religious education from his father.
After he finished a middle school in 1970, Muhammad-Sodiq was accepted into the Mir-i Arab madrassa in Bukhara. He then studied at the Tashkent Islamic Institute named after Imam al-Bukhari in Tashkent, finishing with distinction in 1975. In 1976, sheikh Muhammad Sodiq Muhammd Yusuf was admitted to ad-Dawa al-Islami National Islamic University in Libya, which he finished with distinction and a financial award.
He was Uzbekistan’s first mufti after independence and was a prominent scholar in the country and Islamic world. Sheikh Muhammad-Sodiq was elected mufti by the SADUM in March 1989, and in the same year he was elected as a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. In Sheikh"s meeting with Gorbachev, positive changes have been seen in the policy towards the religion in the communist regime. With sheikh"s efforts, numerous mosques and madrassas were built in the Soviet Union.
Muhammad-Sodiq died on March 10, 2015, after suffering a heart attack.
He was a permanent member of the governing council of this organization.