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...Born in 1951, in a small town in the ultraconservative Qassim region of Saudi Arabia, Hamid studied Arabic literature at Azhar University in Egypt in the late 1970s....
...In 2004, King Abdullah of Jordan organised a conference that persuaded many Muslim scholars to subscribe to the “Amman Message”, a declaration that denounces “extremism, radicalism and fanaticism” as alien...
...In a rare outburst, Saudi King Abdullah demanded an end to the “killing machine”....
...“King Abdullah, take Ali Abdullah,” they chanted, in reference to the Saudi monarch....
...In Egypt, the president appoints senior religious scholars such as the rector of Al-Azhar university and the grand Mufti who heads the highest authority producing fatwas....
...Burhanuddin Abdullah, whose term ended in May, was jailed for five years and fined Rp250m rupiah ($23,500, €18,160, £14,140) for authorising the transfer of about $10m in a Bank Indonesia foundation account...
...That is why we welcome efforts like Saudi Arabian King Abdullah’s Interfaith dialogue and Turkey’s leadership in the Alliance of Civilizations....
...Asked how she was going to communicate that to the Saudi royal family on her next stop, where she is due to meet King Abdullah, she replied: “Let’s wait and see.”...
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