{"id":8813,"date":"2025-09-25T16:10:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=8813"},"modified":"2025-09-30T16:14:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:14:23","slug":"sheikh-abdulaziz-bin-abdullah-al-sheikh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2025\/09\/25\/sheikh-abdulaziz-bin-abdullah-al-sheikh\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/saudi-arabia-mohammed-bin-salman-wahhabism-dubai-united-arab-emirates-b2832495.html\">Independent, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s grand mufti, Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, dies, 24 Sep 2025 <\/a>&#8220;Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh,\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u00a0&#8216;s grand mufti who served the kingdom&#8217;s top religious figure over a quarter century that saw the ultraconservative\u00a0Muslim\u00a0nation socially liberalize, died Tuesday. He was in his 80s.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s grand mufti, Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, dies, 24 Sep 2025 &#8220;Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh,\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u00a0&#8216;s grand mufti who served the kingdom&#8217;s top religious figure over a quarter century that saw the ultraconservative\u00a0Muslim\u00a0nation socially liberalize, died Tuesday. He was in his 80s.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[937,53,277],"tags":[279,54,1073],"class_list":["post-8813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ksa","category-religious-authority","category-saudi-arabia","tag-ksa","tag-religious-authority","tag-sheikh-abdulaziz-bin-abdullah-al-sheikh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8814,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions\/8814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}