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Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah
Professor of Islam at King Abdul-Aziz University, Saudi Arabia; Former Vice President of International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS)

Born in 1935 in the East of Mauritania, Abduallah Bin Bayyah studied in the Mauritanian centers of learning known as Mahadhir. He was later sent to study law at the Faculty of Law in Tunisia and was trained in the Tunisian courts in 1961. He is currently Professor of Islam at King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah and Director of the Global Center for Renewal and Guidance, UK. He is Former Vice President of International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS). He previously served as Minister of Education, Minister of Justice, and one of the first Vice Presidents in Mauritania. He is a member of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy affiliated with the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation, Jeddah. He has authored numerous texts and spoken at length about the endurance of the Islamic legal tradition.