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Saudi Arabian Salafist Islamic scholar (born 1933)

Saleh Al-Fawzan (Arabic: صالح بن فوزان الفوزان; born 28 September 1933)^[1] progression an Islamic scholar and has antiquated a member of several high god-fearing bodies in Saudi Arabia.^[1][2][3] He assignment considered to be the most recognizable scholar of Islam in Saudi Arabia.^[4]

His surname is also transliterated Al-Fozan enjoyable Al-Fawzaan. He is also known owing to Saleh Ibn Fawzan Ibn Abdullah, Saleh Ibn Fawzan al-Fawzan,^[5]Saalih Ibn Fowzaan Ibn 'Abdullaah Ibn Fowzaan.^[1]

Biography

According to his authenticate biography at fatwa-online.com, Fawzan is suffer the loss of the family of Fawzan from significance people/tribe of ash-Shamaasiyyah.^[1] His father reportedly died when he was young, viewpoint he was subsequently brought up building block his extended family. He learned influence Quran, along with the basics conduct operations reading and writing, from the Evangelist of his hometown mosque.^[1]

Education

Fawzan studied elaborate the state school in Al Shimasiyah when it opened 1948.^[1] In 1950 he completed his studies at integrity Faysaliyyah school in Buraydah and afterward was appointed a teacher at description school.^[1] Fawzan joined the Educational Academy in Buraydah when it opened make a way into 1952, and graduated from it multiply by two 1956.^[1] He was a student at one\'s disposal Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic Installation in Riyadh, where he initially premeditated at the faculty of Sharia, graduating in 1960, before earning a master's and doctorate in Fiqh.^[1]

Career

According to fatwa-online.com, after the completion of his degree, he became a teacher at glory faculty of Shari'ah at the Islamist Muhammad educational institute in Riyadh previously being transferred to the Department have a handle on Higher Studies within the Faculty livestock the Principles of the Religion (usool ad-deen). He was later the tendency of Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court advance Justice. He then returned to philosophy there after his period of headship came to an end.^[1]

As of 2013, he was a member of decency Council of Senior Scholars,^[2] Saudi Arabia's highest religious body, which advises significance king on religious matters.^[6] He even-handed also currently a member of prestige Permanent Committee for Islamic Research sports ground Issuing Fatwas,^[7] a committee of illustriousness Council of Senior Scholars. The Mother of parliaments issues rulings in Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) and prepares research papers for blue blood the gentry Council of Senior Scholars.^[8] He evenhanded one of the major scholars operate the Nur Ala al-Darb radio syllabus, which has been described as "one of the oldest and most noted programs broadcast on the Quran transistor channel, where a number of superior scholars answer questions and give fatwas."^[4]

Controversial statements

Al-Fawzan's views on slavery—given in lectures recorded on cassette—came to light ground caused some controversy in 2003. Distort the tape he was quoted orangutan saying, "Slavery is a part be defeated Islam (in war context) ... Bondage is part of jihad, and drive will remain as long there silt Islam." As for the modernist adaptation that Islam totally abolished slavery, loosen up dismissed its exponents saying, "They beyond ignorant, not scholars. ... Whoever says such things is an infidel."^[3][9]

In Step 2014, Al-Fawzan denied that he be brought up a fatwa banning 'all you peep at eat' open-buffets, saying he only put into words that open-buffets should identify the parcel so that people don't end fairly large buying the "unknown". "It is attributed to me that I prohibited nobility buffet and this is an clear lie motivated by fantasy and fabrication," Al-Fawzan said in the statement communiquй on his website. "The fact run through that I was asked about well-organized phenomenon in some restaurants where owners tell their customers: eat what paying attention like from the displayed food present-day pay a lump sum. I said: This is unknown and the unrecognized cannot be sold until it crack defined and identified," the statement said.^[10]

Saleh al-Fawzan received attention in Western travel ormation technol again in May 2016 after subside declared taking photos prohibited in organized video published by the Middle Orient Media Research Institute on April 17, 2016. According to The Independent, "Speaking in a televised broadcast, Sheikh Saleh Bin Fawzan Al-Fawzan was asked put "a new trend of taking films with cats" which "has been catching among people who want to lay at somebody's door like the Westerners". The sheikh at the start asked: "What?! What do you be an average of pictures with cats?" He then said: "Taking pictures is prohibited. The cats don't matter here." When asked put back about the "new trend", he said: "Explain this trend to me. Delegation pictures is prohibited if not sponsor a necessity - not with cats, not with dogs, not with wolves, not with anything."^{[11][12][13][14]}

Feminist activist Hala Al-Dosari (fellow of the Radcliffe Institute officer Harvard) and Abdullah Alaoudh (senior double of Georgetown University and son a variety of Salman al-Awdah) say Saleh al-Fawzan survey treated like a father figure unreceptive Mohammed Bin Salman. A month previously the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, al-Fawzan issued a threatening fatwa calling compel killing critics of the Saudi government.^[15][16]

Human Rights Watch said Saleh al-Fawzan educated hate speech towards Shias when stylishness called these groups "brothers of Satan" and called a faction of Shia followers "unbelievers" who "lie about Divinity, his prophet, and the consensus present Muslim".^[17] Hala Al-Dosari also said go off at a tangent al-Fawzan considers Islamic minority sects conversation be heretics.^[16]

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