At a glance
- Roles
- teacher · activist
- Region
- South Asia · al-Andalus & Europe
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
Life in time
Place in the story
Unknown (unknown)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Malala's father
Yousafzai became known worldwide as the father of Malala Yousafzai, the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate: he encouraged his daughter from childhood to speak out for girls' right to education against the Pakistani Taliban's ban, and stood beside her after the 2012 attempt on her life. He is a co-founder and board member of the Malala Fund, the author of the memoir Let Her Fly (2018), and the recipient of honorary doctorates from Canadian universities for his work for girls' education. 1 2
Religion
His faith is recorded as unknown, in the generic-only configuration: Wikidata's religion value is Islam in general, naming no school; the English article's categories file him under "Pakistani Sunni Muslims", a category filing, which never counts; and no text in the English, Arabic or Urdu edition names a school, order or affiliation for him. That his father was a theology teacher and mosque imam is his father's record and family background, not an attestation of the son's school, and his own public practice and his defence of girls' education name no school either. Where no source names a school, the value stays unknown, unflagged. 1 3 2 4
Sources
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data/source/. - Revisions of this article must be dated, and must name the source that changed each fact.
Connections
- Parent of
- Malala Yousafzai
People and things also explored
Sources
- Ziauddin Yousafzai — English Wikipedia
- Ziauddin Yousafzai — Urdu Wikipedia
- Ziauddin Yousafzai — Arabic Wikipedia
- Ziauddin Yousafzai — Wikidata Q8071389
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ziauddin Yousafzai”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ziauddin-yousafzai/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-27.