Islamic University of Madinah

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The Islamic University of Madinah is a public Islamic university in Medina, Saudi Arabia, established by Royal Decree No. 11 on 25 Rabīʿ al-Awwal 1381 AH (1961). The university states that its studies began in the same year and that its founding legislation established its initial academic structure. The university has been associated by academic scholars with the Salafi tradition and with the international dissemination of Saudi religious scholarship. Its early administration was closely connected with the Saudi religious establishment. The university's first president was Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Āl al-Shaykh, while ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Bāz served as his deputy and was regarded as the de facto administrator of the university during its early years. Following Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm's death in 1969, Ibn Bāz became president and remained in the position until 1975. After Ibn Bāz left the presidency in 1975, ʿAbd al-Muḥsin al-ʿAbbād, who had taught at the university...

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