Person

Ibn-Baiya, ʿAbdallāh Ibn-aš-Šaiḫ al-Maḥfūẓ

1935

Rechtsgelehrter, specialist in all four traditional Sunni schools, with an emphasis on the Maliki Madh'hab, Minister of Education and later Minister of Justice, was also appointed a Vice President of the first president of Mauritania, involved in The Islamic Fiqh Council, till 2013, Vice-President of International Union of Muslim Scholars, member of the Dublin-based European Council for Fatwa and Research