Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat

Nik Abdul Aziz bin Nik Mat (Jawi: }}; 10 January 1931 – 12 February 2015) was a Malaysian politician and Muslim cleric. He was the Menteri Besar of Kelantan from 1990 to 2013 and the ''Mursyidul Am'' or Spiritual Leader of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) from 1991 until his death in 2015. Overall, his career as an elected politician lasted for some 48 years following his election to the Parliament of Malaysia in 1967.

Nik Aziz's leadership of PAS was notable for his racially progressive stances that made it appeal to periphery non-Malay, non-Muslim electoral bases contributing to historic coalitions with left-leaning and multicultural parties like in Pakatan Rakyat; his death however majorly caused a purge of like-minded progressives from PAS who splintered as the National Trust Party as well shifting PAS further right towards Malay supremacism. Provided by Wikipedia