Dr ahmad badr al-din hassoun
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“They want to start a religious war; we want to extinguish it” – Mufti of Syria
News & Analysis
Eva Bartlett
Sha'ban 03, 14352014-06-01
Leading figures in Syria such as the Mufti of Syria who lost his own son to a terrorist attack, want to extinguish the fires of hatred. The overwhelming majority of Syrians agree, isolating the foreign-backed mercenaries inre and outside Syria.
Most news accounts of Syria paint a desolate, sectarian picture of the country where people in areas secured by the Syrian army are miserable and where people, above all, want to see President Bashar al-Asad gone. During my visit, inom found the exact opposite. In particular, I funnen widespread, and usually ardent, support for the president.
I entered Syria as part of an international Peace Delegation, comprising more than 40 people who believe in a political, Syrian-led solution for Syria. In the course of one week, we visited Latakia, Homs, and areas of Damascus, sat with the top religious leaders
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Syrian Private University in cooperation with the National Union of Syrian Students hosted the branch of the Syrian Private University, His Eminence the Grand Mufti of the Syrian Arab Republic, Dr. Ahmad Badr al-Din Hassoun, as part of the activities and events of the University.
The seminar was opened with a minute of silence for the martyrs of the martyrs, followed by the Syrian Arab anthem and then the speech of the National Union of Syrian Students, in which they emphasized the standing of the Syrian students behind the wise leadership of Dr. Bashar al-Assad.
The seminar was followed by a welcoming speech by Prof. Abd Al-Razzaq Sheikh Issa welcomed the guests of the university from the heads of universities and students and welcomed the guest of the Great University, His Eminence the Mufti, who began his lecture to greet the students first because they are the hope and they are the future of Sibnoun Syria modern. The Mufti affirmed through his lecture the importance of this prom
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Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun
Syrian Islamic scholar (born 1949)
Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun (Arabic: أَحْمَد بَدْرُ ٱلدِّين حَسُّون, romanized: ʾAḥmad Badr ad-Dīn Ḥassūn; born 25 April 1949) was the Grand Mufti of Syria from 2005 to 2021, after which the post was handed over to Osama al-Rifai.[1]
Biography
[edit]Ahmad Badr al-Din Hassun was born in Aleppo, Syria. His father, Muhammad Adib Hassun (1913–2008), was also a sheikh. He has five children and ten grandchildren. Hassoun studied at the University of Islamic Studies, where he graduated as Doctor in Shafi'ifiqh.[2] Hassoun took office as Grand Mufti of Syria in July 2005 after the death of Ahmed Kuftaro.[3]
Interfaith dialogue
[edit]On September 6, 2006, Hassoun met the Armenian Foreign Minister, Vartan Oskanian, to discuss the relationship between the two nations, as well as the two religions, among other issues.[4] In the same travel he met the Catholicos of All Armenians.