Habiburrahman Shakir

Habiburrahman Shakir al-Bulgari (10 December 1903 – 18 April 1975) was a Tatar imam, theologian and publisher.

Shakir was born in current day Tatarstan and became a part of the Finnish Tatar community when he arrived in Tampere during late 1940s. Shakir was known as a respected theologian in the Islamic world. Invited by the king of Saudi Arabia, Shakir made a pilgrimage to Mecca with his wife in 1972. Before his time in Finland, Shakir worked as a teacher in India, where one of his students was the later-president of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Shakir was in correspondence with Kurdish theologian Said Nursi. He has been described as being among the "first European Nur students". Shakir was also in contact with Algerian nationalist Ahmed Tewfik El Madani.