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Not to be confused with Saleh Al-Fawzan.
Abd Al-Aziz Al-Fawzan
Personal
Born1963 (age 60–61)
Saudi Arabia
NationalitySaudi Arabian
DenominationSalafi
Alma materImam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University
Other namesAbd Al-Aziz Fawzan Al-Fawzan

' (Arabic: فوزان، عبد العزيز بن فوزان بن صالح) is an Islamic scholar and author in Saudi Arabia. He is also known as Abd al-Aziz b. Fawzan al-Fawzan and Abd Al-Aziz Al-Fawzan.

Background and education

He is a Saudi Professor of Islamic Law at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University[1] and a member of the Teacher’s Board, al-Imam University. In the past, he taught at the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America (IIASA).[2]

Al-Fawzan speaks frequently on Saudi TV, and has reportedly been highly critical of Christianity and the United States.[3] Of Christians he has reportedly said, "Someone who denies Allah, worships Christ, son of Mary, and claims that God is one third of a trinity – so you like these things he says and does? Don’t you hate the faith of such a polytheist who says God is one third of a trinity, or who worships Christ, son of Mary?"

Al-Fawzan, however, further commented that Muslims should have positive hatred, which is to feel compassion and mercy and to try to help people convert to Islam and submit to one god.[3] Of America and the 2008 economic crisis, he said, "America is collapsing, according to the same scenario of the Russian collapse." [4]

Controversies

Fawzan controversially claimed that the 2004 Tsunami was God's punishment for allowing resorts where "especially at Christmas, fornication and sexual perversion of all kinds are rampant."[5]

References

  1. ^ Al-Imam University website
  2. ^ Saudi Cleric Who Taught in U.S. On Al-Majd TV memri.org, October 29, 2008
  3. ^ a b Saudi Professor of Islamic Law Abd Al-Aziz Fawzan Al-Fawzan Calls for "Positive Hatred" of Christians memritv.org, December 16, 2005
  4. ^ Saudi Cleric Abd Al-Aziz Fawzan Al-Fawzan: Allah Be Praised, America Is Collapsing; If the Skulls of America's Victims Were Placed One on Top of the Other, the Pile Would Be Higher than the WTC memritv.org, October 7, 2008
  5. ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/04/AR2006090401107_3.html
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