Council of Supreme Religious Scholars

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The Council of Supreme Religious Scholars ( Arabic هيئة كبار العلماء, DMG Hayʾat Kibār al-ʿUlamāʾ ) or Council of High Scholarship etc. is the highest religious body of Saudi Arabia . Its president is the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Abd al-Aziz bin Abdullah Al-Sheikh . It was founded in 1971. A sub-organ of the Council is the Standing Committee for Scientific Investigations and Fatwa Issuance . ( al-Ladschna ad-Da'ima )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Rüdiger Robert, Daniela Schlicht, Shazia Saleem: Collective Identities in the Near and Middle East: Studies on the Relationship between State and Religion . 2010, p. 325 ( online excerpt )
Council of Supreme Religious Scholars (alternate lemma names)
Council of Senior Scholars (Saudi Arabia); Hayʼat Kibār al-ʻUlamāʼ; Committee of Senior Ulama; Saudi Council of Senior Scholars; Council of Supreme Religious Scholars; Hayat kibar al-ulama; Council of High Scholarship; هيئة كبار العلماء السعودية