Syed Kamaluddin Zafree

Sayed Kamaluddin Abdullah Zafree (born 5 March 1945) is an Islamic scholar from Bangladesh. He is the chairman of the board of trustees of Bangladesh Islami University. He is the chairman of the Sharia Council of Prime Islami Life Insurance Limited.

Birth and Family Background Sayed Kamaluddin Abdullah Zafree was born on 3 March 1945, to a scholarly family in the village of Sayed Auliya in Burhanuddin, Bhola Island. The family trace ancestry to an Arab Islamic preacher, known by locals as Sayed Auliya, who had arrived in South Bengal with his family in the eighteenth century. and serves as the chairman of its governing body. He is also the chairman of the Central Shariah Council for Islamic Insurance of Bangladesh.

Views In 2005, at a seminar of Islamic scholars in Dhaka, Zafree and others denounced terrorism in the name of Islam and endorsed the BNP-led government's fight against it.