Saleh Al-Fawzan is an Islamic scholar and has been a member of several high religious bodies in Saudi Arabia.
10 Facts About Saleh Al-Fawzan
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Saleh Al-Fawzan is considered to be the most senior scholar of Islam in Saudi Arabia.
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Saleh Al-Fawzan is known as Saleh Ibn Fawzan Ibn Abdullah, Saleh Ibn Fawzan al-Fawzan, Saalih Ibn Fowzaan Ibn 'Abdullaah Ibn Fowzaan.
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Saleh Al-Fawzan learned the Quran, the basics of reading and writing from the Imam of his hometown mosque.
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Saleh Al-Fawzan was a student at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, where he initially studied at the faculty of Sharia, graduating in 1960, before earning a master's and doctorate in Fiqh.
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Saleh Al-Fawzan was later the head of Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court of Justice, where he was appointed the head.
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Saleh Al-Fawzan then returned to teaching there after his period of headship came to an end.
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Saleh Al-Fawzan is currently a member of the Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Issuing Fatwas, a committee of the Council of Senior Scholars.
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In March 2014, Saleh Al-Fawzan denied that he issued a fatwa banning 'all you can eat' open-buffets, claiming he only said that open-buffets should identify the quantity so that people don't end up buying the "unknown".
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Feminism activist Hala Al-Dosari and Abdullah Alaoudh claim Saleh al-Fawzan is treated like a father figure by Mohammed Bin Salman.