Mirgazanfer Ibragimov (Azerbaijani: Axund Mirqəzənfər İbrahimov) is the 11th Sheikh ul-Islam, akhund[1] and the chairman of the Religious Council of the Caucasus and the only Sheikh who did not receive a religious education.
[3] After that, Mirgazanfer worked as deputy chairman of the Religious Council of the Caucasus.
After the death of Ali Agha Suleymanzadeh in 1976, the place of Sheikh al-Islam was empty for 2 years.
Mirgazanfer Ibragimov, who at that time was the akhund of the Goycha mosque,[4] was nominated at the 7th Congress of Muslims of Transcaucasia convened in 1978, and was elected the new chairman of the Religious Council of the Caucasus with the title of Sheikh al-Islam.
[2] The Religious Council of the Caucasus entered an active period after 1980 with the election of Sheikh al-Islam Allahshukur Pashazadeh.