- Muhammad Al-Munajid
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Muhammad Saalih Al-Munajid Born 1960 Region Saudi Arabian scholar Maddhab Hanbali School tradition Salafi Muhammad Saalih Al-Munajid is an Islamic lecturer who was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 1960. He was raised in and currently lives in Saudi Arabia.[1]
Education
Al-Munajid graduated from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, with a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Management.[2]
Al-Munajid studied Islamic law under the scholar 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Baaz, who authorized him to teach and give lectures in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. He had not yet reached the age of thirty. He also studied under the scholars Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen, Abdullah Ibn Jibreen, Saleh Al-Fawzan, and Abd ar-Rahmaan al-Baraak.[1]
Activities
Al-Munajid is the imam and lecturer at the 'Umar ibn Abd al-'Aziz mosque in the city of Al-Khobar, where he teaches and gives lectures in Sharia and da'wah.
Al-Munajid was the first person to launch a website in Saudi Arabia representing Islam. The site was launched in 1997 and presented in a QA format. It has been translated into eight languages, in addition to the original Arabic: English, French, Spanish, Urdu, Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese, and Uyghur.[1]
Al-Munajid has several radio and television programs on channels in Saudi Arabia and throughout the Persian Gulf. He also has over four thousand hours worth of media broadcasts on the internet, including through his website. Most of the content is in Arabic, although some of it is translated into English. Al-Munajid also supervises a group of Islamic websites, Islam.ws.[1]
References
Categories:- Islamic studies scholars
- Muslim scholars
- Salafis
- Hanbalis
- Living people
- Saudi Arabian imams
- Saudi Arabian Muslims
- People from Aleppo
- 20th-century imams
- 21st-century imams
- 1960 births
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