Zakir Abdul Karim Naik (Hindi: ज़ाकिर अब्दुल करीम नायक; born 18 October, 1965) is an Indian Muslim public speaker, and writer on the subject of Islam and comparative religion. By profession, he is a medical doctor, attaining a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) from Maharashtra, but since 1991 he has become a preacher involved in Islamic proselytism (da'wah) and Comparative Religion.^[1] He states that his main goal is to revive the crucial fundamentals of Islam that most of the Muslims are either oblivious to or poorly understand in context of modernity.
Zakir Naik is the founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF)^[1][2] —a non-profit organization that owns and broadcasts the free-to-air TV channel network Peace TV from Mumbai, India.