Abdullah ibn Abdur-Rahman al-Ghudayyan (1926 – 1 June 2010) was a Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar, a leading proponent of the
Salafi
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form of
Islam
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Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University
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within the Faculty of
Sharia
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and Faculty of
Fiqh
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Fatwa
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on the radio program Nur Ala Al-Darb, which has been described as "one of the oldest and most famous programs broadcast on the Quran radio channel, where a number of major scholars answer questions and give fatwas."
Students
Abdullah al-Ghudayyan had a number of notable students, including:
* Saleh Aal al-Sheikh, Minister of Islamic Affairs for Saudi Arabia
* Abdur-Rahman al-Sudais, Imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and President of the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques
*
Saud al-Shuraim
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, imam and
khatib
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of the Grand Mosque in Mecca
* Abd al-Kareem al-Khudayr, a member of the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars
*
Saad al-Shithri
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Family
Saad al-Shathri is "a m ...