Abdurrahman al-Barrak
Abdurrahman bin Nasir al-Barrak ( Arabic عبدالرحمن بن ناصر براك بن إبراهيم البراك, DMG ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān b. Nāṣir al-Barrāk b. Ibrāhīm al-Barrāk ; * 1933 in al-Bukairiya, Saudi Arabia ) is an Islamic religious scholar in Saudi Arabia.
Abdurrahman al-Barrak was born in Saudi Arabia in 1933. His father died early, the boy went blind when he was 9 years old. At the age of 12 he already knew the Koran by heart and learned from Sheikh Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz , among others . In the early 1950s, al-Barrak worked at Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University and the College of Sharia Law .
He became known to a wider public through controversial fatwas . In March 2008, al-Barrak threatened two journalists with the Al-Riyadh newspaper , Abdullah ibn Bidschad al-Utaibi and Yusuf Abu l-Khail, with deaths for having published "heretical articles". In 2010 he threatened those who campaign for gender equality with death, as this contravened Sharia law.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://albarrak.islamlight.net/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1364&Itemid=45
- ↑ a b http://www.saaid.net/Warathah/1/albarak.htm
- ↑ Top Saudi cleric calls for writers' deaths , Reuters, March 16, 2008
- ^ Saudi cleric backs gender segregation with fatwa , Reuters, February 23, 2010
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| SURNAME | Barrak, Abdurrahman al- |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barrak, Abdurrahman bin Nasir al- (full name); عبدالرحمن بن ناصر براك بن إبراهيم البراك (Arabic); Barrāk, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Nāṣir al-Barrāk Ibn Ibrahim al- |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Islamic religious scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | al-Bukairiya, Saudi Arabia |