Muhammad Al-Munajid
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.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
Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen
Sheikh Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Saalih ibn Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen at-Tamimi an-Najdi was one of the most prominent Sunni Islamic scholars of the latter half of the twentieth century...
, Abdullah Ibn Jibreen
Abdullah Ibn Jibreen
Abdullah ibn Abdulrahman ibn Jibreen was a leading Sunni cleric in Saudi Arabia and a member of the Senior Clerics Association.He was also a former member of the Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Fataawa in Saudi Arabia....
, Saleh Al-Fawzan
Saleh Al-Fawzan
Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, born 1933, is a well known scholar in Saudi Arabia and prolific author.His surname is also rendered Fozan or Fawzaan.He is also known as Sheikh/Shaykh Dr...
, and Abd ar-Rahmaan al-Baraak.
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 ShariaSharia
Sharia law, is the moral code and religious law of Islam. Sharia is derived from two primary sources of Islamic law: the precepts set forth in the Quran, and the example set by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Sunnah. Fiqh jurisprudence interprets and extends the application of sharia to...
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.
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.