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Saudi Arabia Mufti dies at 90

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The Islamic World League has announced from its center at Mecca the death of Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah Bin Baz, the Saudi Mufti general, the chairman of the scientific al-Ifta research and al-Ifta and the chairman of the constituent council for the Islamic World League on Thursday at dawn in the city of al-Taif.

In a statement, the secretary general of the Islamic World League, Dr. Abdullah Bin Saleh Obeid, expressed his sorrow for this great loss for the Islamic nation in losing one of its prominent scholars.

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