AHMED HASANOV
Deputy Grand Mufti
E-mail: omurtagli@gmail.com
Ahmed Hasanov was born in 1977 in the town of Omurtag, Targovishte region. He completed his primary education in the village of Zelena Morava, after which he began studying and in 1996 graduated from the General Secondary Religious School “Nyuvvab” in Shumen. Then he attended the Higher Islamic Institute in Sofia and completed his education there in 2002.
In 2001 he took part in the traditional Competition in Artistic Reading of Qur’an – i Kerim in Iran. In the period 2002 – 2003 he works as an imam in “Fandak mosque” in the town of Omurtag.
He completed his Master’s Degree in the Department of Basic Islamic Studies of the Social Sciences Institute at the University of Ankara with defense of his thesis on “Life, creativity and the work of Yusuf Ziyaeddin Ezheri “History of the Qur’an”.
From 2008 to 2010 he worked as a preacher at Regional Mufti’s Office – Targovishte.
During 2010 – 2012 he was a teacher and a Director of the Training Center “Gül” in the city of Aalen of Baden-Württemberg state in Germany.
Currently he is a lecturer in Qur’an-i Kerim at the Higher Islamic Institute in Sofia where at the same time he prepares his doctoral thesis on ”Examples of positive human traits in the Qur’an”.
He is married and has one child.
MURAT PINGOV
Deputy Grand Mufti
E-mail: m.pingov@grandmufti.bg
In 2002 he completed his secondary education in the town of Bozyazı, Mersin province in the Republic of Turkey.
In 2006 he completed his higher education in the “Uludağ” University in the city of Bursa in Turkey.
He was elected as a Regional Mufti of Sofia in 2011.
Since 2012 he is a Deputy Grand Mufti.
He is married and has two children.
BEYHAN MEHMED
Deputy Grand Mufti
E-mail: beyhanm_m@hotmail.com
Beyhan Mustafa Mehmed was born in 1981 in the town of Omurtag, Targovishte region. He completed his primary education in his native village of Obitel, then enrolled and graduated from the Secondary Theological School in Ruse in 1999. Then he entered the Higher Islamic Institute in Sofia, where he studied for one year and in 2000 was admitted to the Theological Faculty of Seljuk University in Konya, from where he graduated in 2004.
In the period 2004-2005 he was a Lecturer in the Imams Course in the village of Ustina.
In the period 2005-2006 he was a Lecturer and Educator in the Religious School in Momchilgrad.
From 2006-2010 he was an Imam in the historical Tombul Mosque, an educator in the "Nyuvvab" Theological School, a preacher of the Shumen Regional State University and for 6 months a lecturer in the Theological School.
From February 2010 to March 2021, he was the Regional Mufti of the city of Kardzhali.
He obtained his master's degree in 2010 from Shumen University, Department of Educational Management. He is continuing his doctoral studies at Istanbul University.
He has written articles in the Muslim Journal, published books "Rahmet Esintileri", "Religious Songs in Three Languages", "Cultural Project 4 Types of Mevlid - Written in Bulgaria"
In 2020, during the month of Ramadan, he implemented the project "Ramadan School - Ramadan Okulu" on the YouTube channel of the Confession. He is a member of the "Commission for the Preparation of Books on Religion Islam for Public Schools".
Married, with one child.