Abdallah Bin Bayyah

Abdullah bin Bayyah
Born	1935 (age 76–77) Mauritania
Residence	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Employer	King Abdul Aziz University
Title	Shaykh
Religion	Sunni Islam (Sufi)[1]
Website
http://www.binbayyah.net

Abdallah bin Mahfudh ibn Bayyah (born 1935) He was born in Mauritania. Currently he teaches at King Abdul Aziz University in Saudi Arabia. He is a specialist in all four traditional Sunni schools, with an emphasis on the Maliki school of Madh'hab.

In his youth, he was appointed to study legal judgments in Tunis. On returning to Mauritania, he became Minister of Education and later Minister of Justice. He was also appointed a Vice President of the first president of Mauritania.

Bin Bayyah is presently involved in The Islamic Fiqh Council, a Saudi-based Institute. He is also a member of the Dublin-based European Council for Fatwa and Research, a council of Muslim clerics that aims at explaining Islamic law in a way that is sensitive to the realities of European Muslims.^{[citation needed]}

He was ranked amongst the 50 most influential Muslims in 2009.^[2]

Amman Message

Bin Bayyah is one of the Ulama signatories of the Amman Message, which gives a broad foundation for defining Muslim orthodoxy.^[3]

Publications

• Manufacturing of Fatwa and minority fiqh, 2005.
• A dialogue about human rights in Islam, 2003.
• Ideological opinions (فتاوى فكرية)
• Amaly Alddalalat (Usul alfiqh), 2003.

See also

• Deen Intensive
• Reviving the Islamic Spirit

Prominent Students

• Hamza Yusuf

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Abdallah Bin Bayyah

• Abdallah bin Bayyah's Official Website (Arabic)
• A Biography of Abdallah bin Bayyah from the Deen Intensive Foundation
• With the Shaykh
• Muslims Living in Non-Muslim Lands, by Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah
• The Radical Middle Way