Muḥammad ibn ʾIbrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Abd al-Wahhāb Al Shaykh Al-Tamīmī (1890–1969), was a
Saudi Arabian religious scholar who was the
Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to his death in 1969. He is recognised as being amongst the forefront of
Salafi
The Salafi movement or Salafism () is a reform branch movement within Sunni Islam that originated during the nineteenth century. The name refers to advocacy of a return to the traditions of the "pious predecessors" (), the first three generat ...
theologians in history.
Background
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al ash-Sheikh was born in Riyadh in 1890 to the noted family of Saudi religious scholars, the
Al ash-Sheikh
The Al ash-Sheikh ( ar, آل الشيخ, '),Using the term ''the Al ash-Sheikh family'' is a pleonasm as the word ''Al'' already means ''family''. See Etymology. It would, in theory, be correct to use the term ''Family of the Sheikh'', but, unlik ...
, descendants of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. His father was Sheikh Ibrahim ibn Abdul Latif Al As Sheikh, and his mother was Jawharah bint Abdul Aziz Al Hilali. He had a very religious upbringing. He memorized Quran in an early age. He lost his sight around the year 1328 AH, and he knew to read and write before losing sight.
Rebellion of King Faisal
As Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia he gave a fatwa legitimising the armed rebellion of future
King Faisal against his brother
King Saud.
Role as Grand Mufti
As Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1969, he dominated Saudi religious policy in the 1950s and 1960s.
He died in 1969.
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Other roles
He served as president of the Constituent Council of the Muslim World League
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. He was one of the closest advisors of King Faisal having significant effects on the latter's role in the Arab world
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Family
Muhammad was the father of Ibrahim ibn Muhammad Al ash-Sheikh,[ Saudi minister of justice from 1975 to 1990][
He was the first cousin of King Faisal whose mother, Tarfa bin Abdullah, was from the Al Sheikh family.]
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20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
1890 births
1969 deaths
Salafi Islamists
Grand Muftis of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabian Wahhabists
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