Ramadan al-Bouti — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti; used for entity facts only. It records his birth in 1929 in the village of Jeilka near Cizre, Turkey, and his assassination at the al-Iman Mosque in Damascus on 21 March 2013, his family's migration to Damascus when he was four, his al-Azhar studies and 1965 doctorate, his deanship of the Damascus Faculty of Sharia and imamate of the Umayyad Mosque, his more than sixty books, and describes him as a Sunni scholar who specialized in fiqh and usul al-fiqh according to the Shafi'i school within the orthodox Ash'ari creed.