Salman al-Ouda

Salman al-Ouda
Salman al-Ouda in May 2012
Personal
Born (1956-12-14) 14 December 1956 (age 67)[1]
al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia
ReligionIslam
NationalitySaudi Arabia
ChildrenAbdullah Alaoudh[2]
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceAhl al-Hadith
MovementSahwa[3]
Main interest(s)Sharia
Alma materthe Faculty of Sharia and Religious Principles in al-Qassim
Muslim leader
Influenced by
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Salman bin Fahd bin Abdullah al-Ouda (Arabic: سلمان بن فهد بن عبد الله العودة) or Salman al-Ouda (Arabic: سلمان العودة), Salman al-Oadah, Salman al-Audah, or Salman al-Awdah (Arabic: سلمان بن فهد العودة) - kunya: Abu Mu'ad (أبو معاذ)- (born 14 December 1956)[1] is a Saudi Islamic scholar. Al-Ouda is a member of the International Union for Muslim Scholars and on its board of trustees.[5] He is a director of the Arabic edition of the website Islam Today and appears on a number of TV shows and authors newspaper articles.[6]

In 1993 al-Ouda was one of the leaders of the dissident group Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights (CDLR) that challenged the Saudi government,[7] for which he was imprisoned during 1994–1999.[citation needed] In 2007 he was viewed as a government supporter.[citation needed] He was detained by the Saudi authorities in September 2017. As of July 2018, he remained in solitary confinement without charge or trial. Officials imposed travel bans on members of his family.[8][9][10] He was arrested for his refusal to comply with an order by Saudi authorities to tweet a specific text to support the Saudi-led blockade of Qatar. In a 4 September 2018 legal hearing, prosecutors applied for al-Ouda to be sentenced to death.[11]

  1. ^ a b The Muslim 500 2022 edition themuslim500.com
  2. ^ Alaoudh, Abdullah (13 February 2019). "Opinion | My Father Faces the Death Penalty. This Is Justice in Saudi Arabia". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 26 February 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  3. ^ Pashayan, Araks. "Saudi Arabia on the Road to Modernization: Reality or Myth?." Ժամանակակից Եվրասիա= Contemporary Eurasia 8.1 (2019): 34-44.
  4. ^ Robert G. Rabil (26 September 2014). Salafism in Lebanon: From Apoliticism to Transnational Jihadism. Georgetown University Press. p. 55. ISBN 9781626161177.
  5. ^ "http://www.islamway.com/?iw_s=Scholar&iw_a=info&scholar_id=1" Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine islam way.
  6. ^ Murad Batal Al-shishani (25 November 2009). "Ibrahim al-Rubaish: New Religious Ideologue of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia Calls for Revival of Assassination Tactic". The Jamestown Foundation. Archived from the original on 28 February 2011. ...al-Rubaish released a book criticizing Shaykh Salman al-Ouda because of the latter's "alliance" with the Saudi regime. The shaykh, who directs the website Islam Today, has condemned the 9/11 attacks and used his media access to rebuke Osama bin Laden as a killer of innocent people.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference CDLR_Kapisz was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Mohammed bin Salman's reign of terror will not make Saudi Arabia stable Archived 2018-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, Madawi al-Rasheed, 16 July 2018, Middle East Eye
  9. ^ Saudi cleric Salman al-Awda called for reform. Now he's in solitary confinement. Archived 2018-07-26 at the Wayback Machine by F. Brinley Bruton, Jan.27.2018
  10. ^ Saudi Arabia's crown prince is taking the kingdom back to the Dark Ages Archived 2018-12-16 at the Wayback Machine, by Abdullah Alaoudh, 19 July 2018, The Washington Post
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference ESOHR_alOuda_IUMS_deathpenalty was invoked but never defined (see the help page).