{"id":1869,"date":"2019-10-06T17:39:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T17:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2019-11-02T14:09:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T14:09:30","slug":"shaykh-abdullah-bin-bayyah-named-among-worlds-most-influential2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/shaykh-abdullah-bin-bayyah-named-among-worlds-most-influential2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah named Among world’s most influential2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Abdullah

Abdullah Bin Bayyah<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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President of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah\u2019s influence is derived from his scholarship, piety and preaching. Unique- ly, all of the different sects and schools of Muslims respect him as a scholar. A testament to this is the no- table fact that whilst he is not a Salafi, the Saudi gov- ernment promulgates his fatwas as authoritative. He is an instructor at King Abdulaziz University in Jed- dah and was the deputy head of the Union of Muslim Scholars having previously been a Judge at the High Court of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and the Head of Shariah Affairs at the Ministry of Justice. He was appointed chair of the recently formed UAE Fat- wa Council.<\/p>\n

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Birth:\u00a0<\/strong>1 May 1935 (Age: 84)<\/p>\n

Source of Influence:\u00a0<\/strong>Scholarly<\/p>\n

Influence:<\/strong>\u00a0Significant influence as a leading contemporary scholar of Islamic Jurisprudence<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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School of Thought:<\/strong>\u00a0Traditional Sunni, Maliki<\/p>\n

Status:<\/strong>\u00a0Featured in curr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Influence<\/span><\/div>\n
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Education<\/strong>: Sheikh bin Bayyah was raised in a household famous for its scholars, and his father, Sheikh Mahfoudh bin Bayyah, was the head of the Conference of Mauritanian Scholars established after the country\u2019s independence. Sheikh bin Bayyah studied in the Mauritanian centres of learning known as Mahadhir, in which all the sacred sciences were taught including: jurisprudence, legal theory, syntax, language, rhetoric, Qur\u2019anic exegesis and its auxiliary sciences, and the science of Prophetic tradition.<\/p>\n

Diplomat<\/strong>: As a member of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy or Al Majma\u2019 al Fiqhi of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Sheikh bin Bayyah is at the forefront of the legal arm of a dynamic organization with a permanent delegation to the United Nations. Author: Having written numerous texts, Sheikh bin Bayyah\u2019s scholarly explorations have gone global through speaking engagements that draw crowds of tens of thousands. He has spoken at length about the endurance of the Islamic legal tradition and also written extensively on rulings for Muslims living as minorities in foreign lands, or fiqh al aqaliyaat.<\/p>\n

Activist<\/strong>: In June 2013, Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah visited the White House where he met with senior advisers and aides to President Obama. He called for the protection of the Syrian people and the Muslim minority in Myanmar. Also, he met with Bill Gates during the Global Vaccine Summit in Abu Dhabi in April 2013. He recently initiated the \u2018Muslim Council of Elders\u2019 which embraces leading scholars (including the Sheikh of Al-Azhar), and presided over a large gathering of religious scholars at a forum entitled \u2018Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies\u2019, which has now been established as an organization (based in the UAE).<\/p>\n

The Marrakesh Declaration<\/strong>: Sheikh Abdallah bin Bayyah led around 250 Muslim religious leaders, in addition to approximately 50 non-Muslim religious leaders, in a three day summit in Marrakesh entitled: \u2018The Rights of Religious Minorities in Predominantly Muslim Majority Communities: Legal Framework and a Call to Action\u2019. The summit used the original Charter of Medina, drawn up by the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) himself, as a basis for addressing the current crisis of religious minorities in parts of the Muslim world. With extremists committing violence in the name of Islam against other religions, as well as against most Muslims, it was necessary to voice the position of normative Islam vis-a?-vis religious minorities through a gathering of its leading scholars. The summit concluded with the release of the 750 word Marrakesh Declaration (see page 117).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Quotes<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cIf I asked for people to die for the sake of God, I would have them lining up at my house. But when I ask people to live for the sake of God, I can\u2019t find anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWar is sometimes a necessity that arises out of specific conditions between conflicting states as a result of one\u2019s aggression and belligerence. Hence, war in Islam is not acceptable, except out of necessity, in extenuating circumstances. Islam does not call to war. Islam invites to peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Statistics<\/span><\/div>\n
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4<\/strong>\u00a0different ministerial posts held<\/p>\n

700<\/strong>\u00a0Muslim scholars who attended the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah\u2019s influence is derived from his scholarship, piety and preaching. Unique- ly, all of the different sects and schools of Muslims respect him as a scholar. A testament to this is the no- table fact that whilst he is not a Salafi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[333,332],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-most-influential","tag-shaykh-abdullah-bin-bayyah-named-among-worlds-most-influential"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}