Since 1999, Šajch has been headed by the Council of High Schools, a government body, which is in charge of issuing religious decrees. In recent years, the authority of the Council has faded. The reason was to accept a number of reforms of the young Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman. In Saudi Arabia, he alleviated social and religious restrictions in an effort to modernize his homeland.
The royal court reported about the death of the Great Muftti Saudi Arabian court. He did not tell the age of the clergy, it is assumed that he was about 80 years old. In Riyadh for the clergy on Tuesday, the Crown Prince himself led prayer.
Since the age of fourteen, Shay has been blind and at an early age he learned the Qur’an by heart. Who replaces him is not yet clear.
The cause of evil and disaster
Like many Saudi religious scholars, he held a great muffe of a strict and deeply conservative interpretation of Islam. In 2004, he came to the front pages when he criticized the presence of unseen women near men at the Economic Forum in Jida and their behavior described as the cause of “evil and disaster”, as Reuters said.
The strongly conservative interpretation of Islam has long determined the religious and cultural life of the kingdom. Over the past ten years, however, the influence of Crown Prince Bin Salman, who is now 40 years old, has changed Saudi Arabia almost unrecognizable, writes The New York Times.
One of the first major steps of the young Prince was to take powers to religious police in 2016, looking for unmarried couples, forcing cafes to turn off music or scream at women to cover their hair.
In 2018, the Prince also canceled the ban on the driving that applied to women. A year later he opened the kingdom to foreign tourists. He canceled the obligation to carry long robes in public and eliminate the rule that the guardian had to have the consent of the guardian to travel abroad.
