Abdulaziz Al Sheikh

Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh was no ordinary cleric; as the third Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia from 1999 until his death in 2025, he sat at the very top of the religious hierarchy, issuing fatwas that carried enormous weight. What moves me is that beneath that immense authority was a man rooted in scholarship and devotion, Mecca-born, trained at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud University, and a qāriʾ who recited the Qur'an with care. Whatever one's own beliefs, I respect a life so fully given over to learning and faith, and his decades of influence are hard to overstate.

Name (English)

Abdulaziz Al Sheikh

Name (Japanese)

アブドルアジズ・アール＝アッシャイフ

Reading

あぶどるあじず・あーる＝あっしゃいふ

Born

November 30, 1943 (age 82)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Goat

Origin

Mecca, Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia

Occupation

mufti / qāriʾ

University

Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University

Awards & achievements

• Dostyk Order of grade II

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://mufti.af.org.sa/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%96%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B8%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%EF%BC%9D%E3%82%A2%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%82%A4%E3%83%95

Tags

• Mecca Province
• mufti
• qāriʾ

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.