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Sadiq al-Ghariani | |
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الصادق الغرياني | |
Grand Mufti of Libya | |
Assumed office February 2012 | |
Preceded by | Muhammad al-Madni al-Shwayrif [1] |
In office 1995–2009 | |
Succeeded by | Muhammad al-Madni al-Shwayrif |
Personal details | |
Born | Tripoli,Italian Libya | 8 December 1942
Alma mater | University of Mohammed bin Ali al-Sanusi (BA) al-Azhar University (Msc &PhD) University of Exeter (PhD) |
Profession | Grand Mufti of Libya |
Website | sadiqalghiryani.ly |
Personal | |
Jurisprudence | Maliki |
Creed | Athari [2] |
Al-Sadiq Abd al-Rahman Ali al-Ghariani (alternative spelling include Saadiq,Sadeq and Sadik) (Arabic:الصادقعبدالرحمنعليالغرياني) has been the Grand Mufti of Libya since 2012. [3] [4] He is a Muslim imam of the Maliki school of thought [ citation needed ]. Academically he is a seated professor in the College of Sharia in the University of Tripoli since 1969 and distinguished contributor the Maliki school of thought with his numerous publications.
His family originates from the village of Intataat near the city of Gharyan. Though he is often identified as a Salafist,al-Ghariani has often opposed efforts by Salafist militants to eliminate their opposition and force the creation of an Islamic state. As Grand Mufti and head of the Dar al-Ifta,the office in Libya responsible for religious rulings,his fatwas are not law,but they nevertheless exert an important moral force in government policy and decision-making. [5]
Sheikh Al Ghariani has become more prominent after the 2011 Libyan Revolution and subsequent civil war due to his widely supported fatwas against Muammar Gaddafi and public opposition to Gaddafi's rule on Al Jazeera. [6]
In June 2017,Sadiq Al Ghariani,was placed on a Terrorism watchlist,following accusation of links to Terrorism and Qatari backing for International terrorism in the 2017 Qatar diplomatic crisis. A number of nations,including Saudi Arabia,Bahrain,UAE,and Egypt are some who have issued this verdict. [7] [8]
Al-Ghariani was born in 1942. He studied Sharia law at an educational institution in Bayda which is currently known as Omar Al-Mukhtar University. He graduated in 1969 and started teaching there in 1970.
In 1972 he obtained a master's degree with distinction in 'Comparative Jurisprudence' from the Faculty of Sharia and Law,Al-Azhar University in Cairo,Egypt. In 1984 he received a doctorate in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. [9]
In 1979 he obtained his doctorate degree in 'Comparative Jurisprudence' from the Faculty of Sharia and Law at the University of Al-Azhar,under the title (Alhukm Alsharie byna Alnaql wa Alaql) (Islamic Sharia ruling between Text and Mind). [9]
In 1984 he obtained another doctorate degree from the Arabic and Islamic Studies Department,the University of Exeter,Britain,titled (Iydah Almasalik ila Qawaid Alimam Malik) (Clarifying the methods to Alimam Malik's rules) by Ahmed Ben Yahia Alonshrese (investigation and study.) [9]
Sheikh Al-Ghariani has released several academic books that are well received by contemporaries in the academic community even by those that oppose him. Especially his most notable publication مدونةالفقهالمالكيوأدلتهwhich is praised for bringing complex concepts and making them more available to the less adapt reader as well as including views of other schools of thought and talks over many topics including sources from hadeeth and evaluating their authenticity. [11] [12]
During the Libyan Civil War of 2011,he declared a fatwa for "jihad" against Muammar Gadhaffi during a televised address. Ghariani was later appointed as the Grand Mufti of Libya in February 2012 by the then Islamist dominated National Transitional Council.
Following the fall of Tripoli Airport in August 2014,he stood against the attempted Coup d'état he congratulated the Libya Dawn coalition,saying "I congratulate the revolutionaries in their victory,I give blessing to the martyrs"[ citation needed ] and keeping his support with the democratic elected government. In 2016,following the crackdown on the Islamist Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries,he continued his full support for the fight against the rebels that attempted a military take over of the sitting democratic government. [13]
As is natural in Muslim countries Sheikh Ghariani has been to have advising the Libyan public over the years since after the February 17th revolution calling for peace and unity in the country and warning the public about issues that affect their religious rights and freedoms including answering questions as a Mufti to give Iftas on complex religious questions[ citation needed ],all of these responses are meticulously documented the website Tanasuh[ citation needed ]. [4] Ghariani was observed to have supported the constitutional governments in Libya and apposing several attempts of democracy in Libya attempted by revolotionist Khalifa Haftar[ citation needed ];and consistently calls for the unity of Libyans in the face of threats from ISIS/Daesh in Sirte,Benghazi,and Derna [14] [ citation needed ]
He is also a notable supporter of well known [ by whom? ] hardline Islamist Operation Libya Dawn. British media reported that he "faces possible war crimes charges for urging followers to overthrow Libyan government" and that he is currently residing in the United Kingdom,where he gained his doctorate in 1984., [15] However this report was found to be incorrect and The Guardian later apologized and admitting that the source of the information was dubious. [15]
The Tanasuh TV channel was attacked on numerous occasions,with one incident involving armed men barging in and looting the recording equipment and sacking the broadcasting office in Libya.[ citation needed ] Reported by Libya Herald and a number of Libyan news outlets.
Ghariani has also been observed to have contacted numerous political parties such as the Tripoli-based GNC requesting to hand over power to " the other body it chooses",implying that Ghariani has the status and power to declare the political future of Tripoli. - Lana News agency '22-07-2016'[ citation needed ]
On 31 March 2016,Ghariani warned the Presidential Council (Libya) that the doors of jihad will open for at least 10 years [16] if the presidency council under Seraj were to stay in Tripoli,and concluded by advising the Presidency Council to not arrive;and leave Tripoli.
On 22 July 2016,Cleric Sadek Al Ghariani along with Misrata militia leader Salah Badi and former Islamist-GNC-regime prime minister Omar al-Hassi were found to have facilitated the orchestration of a pro-Islamic based protest against the Presidential Council (Libya) in Tripoli over the presence of French special forces that were recently killed in the downing of their chopper over Benghazi. [17] The protest was initially planned to be symbolic as protesters along western coast cities from Zuwara to Tripoli have set fire to French flags. However the protest turned political as the protesters demanded the UN agreed upon Presidential Council (Libya) (PC) Headed by Fayez al-Sarraj to be dismantled or sacked and replaced by the more Islamic supreme revolutionaries’council. [18]
On 4 August 2016,Clerik Sadek Al Ghariani stated that the US airstrike in Sirte [19] [20] was illegal in a press conference,Even though it was requested by the UN agreed upon Presidency Council (led by Chairman Faiez Seraj based in Tripoli as the sole legitimate government of Libya). Ghariani has dismissed the anti-Daesh air strike as a political stunt for US electoral purposes in helping the democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.>[ citation needed ] He has likewise dismissed the presidency council as "illegitimate"[ citation needed ],coming very close to endorsing the Islamic State in Libya. He has also evidently attacked the RADA special forces in Tripoli (responsible for dealing with rampant crime and Kidnappings ) for "Carrying out crimes of arrest and seizure against Islamist Benghazi Revolutionaries" Ghariani claimed,who have been evidently linked to the Islamic State and terrorist practices via video prisoner confessions that the RADA special forces released. [21]
- Ghariani's conservative teachings have long been a subject of controversy,and he was criticized in late August 2014 by then Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani with Quote "Ageing grey Mufti:has no shame in issuing political edicts" on 20 Oct,2014,for issuing false fatwas and called on Libya's House of Representatives to remove him from his post.
- In March 2013,Cleric Ghariani has issued a fatwa prohibiting Libyan women from marrying foreign men. [15] [22] [23] [24] He has also displayed strong opposition to the "UN Report on Violence Against Women and Girls" [25] [26] and has organised a protest with a number of Libyan women at the UN Headquarters that demanded Sharia Law,and has simultaneously issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence". Meanwhile,there were also women who have protested in support of the UN commissioned document on Violence against women. [27]
- In February 2014 Al-Ghariani forbade opposition to the General National Congress [28] which was refusing to stand down and hold elections. He called for its enemies to be "eliminated".
- In April 2019 he called for a Hajj and Umrah boycott as a form of protest against Saudi government policies of “killings of Muslim brothers and sisters”. [29] [30]
- In April 2020 Al-Ghariani declared on Libyan Al-Tanasuh TV that suicide bombings are permitted by sharia law. [31]
Due to Ghariani's recent political endeavors in Libyan politics in such a crucial time of "the moulding" of the state of Libya,multiple reports emerged that he awaits arrest by Tripoli Militia leader Haithem Tajouri. [32] [33] [34] [35]
Militia leader Haithem Tajouri ordered the "seizure of predominantly Islamic - Muslim brotherhood supporting - Misuratan Intelligence personnel" with support of Intelligence officers Opposing the "Islamic Domination of Intelligence apparatus" News agencies have thus reported on August 14,2016.
Leaflets have appeared in the streets of Tripoli reportedly showing " NO to the Muslim Brotherhood" with Ghariani's photograph marked with a red Denial symbol.
The TV channel believed to be owned and supported by Sadiq Ghariani and his supporters and has been branded on numerous occasions as a radical Islamist propaganda outlet. Political subjects are usually discussed and often express inflammatory rhetoric. It is believed that the Tanasuh / Tanasoh TV channel was attacked in the past. The British government investigated Sadiq Ghariani for 'inciting Islamic insurgency' in Libya, [36] which eventually led to his ban from the country. The Tanasoh TV channel,leniency towards ISIS and Ansar-Al-Sharia;Sadiq Ghariani and the sudden radical-Islamist surge in Tripoli and its domestic politics can be attributed to the very potential presence of the Muslim Brotherhood and the broad presence of a growing radical Islamist threat in Libya. [37] [38]
In June 2017,following the 2017 Qatar diplomatic crisis,a number of nations including Egypt,Bahrain,Saudi Arabia,United Arab Emirates,Yemen,Maldives,Mauritania,Senegal,Comoros,Chad,Somaliland,and Libya's Tobruk government,agreed to designate Sadiq Al Ghariani as having Links to Qatari backed Terrorism sponsorship [39] [40] [41] and terrorism related activities following Sadiq Al Ghariani's radical activities in Libya involving the spreading of radical propaganda and fatwas to the public inciting violence.
The list has recently been expanded with more radical individuals from Libya such as Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi who is considered to be the leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya. The Libya Herald stated that "Sadiq al Ghariani has Qatari residence permit and is said to be involved in numerous Qatari organizations,although based in Misrata."
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