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Saudi Muslim scholar and Ḥanbalī traditionalist. Hatim ibn Arif al-Awni ( ; born 1966) is a Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar and Hanbali traditionalist.1 Born in Ta'if to a Sharifian family, al-Awni completed his BA, MA and PhD in Sharia at the College of Da'wah and Fundamentals of Religion at Umm al-Qura University , where he later became Associate Professor. He was appointed as a member of the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia , serving two terms between 12 April 2005 and 10 January 2013. A student of Nasir al-Din al-Albani , his research focuses on hadith studies .2 Al-Awni advocates for a reformed Wahhabism which he envisages as a "correctionist movement". "حاتم بن عارف العوني" . مركز التوثيق الملكي الهاشمي (in Arabic) . Carnegie Endowment for International Peace .
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Saudi Islamic scholar (born 1966) Hatim ibn Arif al-Awni ( Arabic : حاتم بن عارف العوني , romanized : Ḥātim ibn ʿArif al-Awnī ; born 1966) is a Saudi Islamic scholar. Born in Ta'if to a Sharifian family, al-Awni completed his BA, MA and PhD in Sharia at the College of Da'wah and Fundamentals of Religion at Umm al-Qura University , where he later became Associate Professor. He was appointed as a member of the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia , serving two terms between 12 April 2005 and 10 January 2013. A student of al-Albani , his research focuses on hadith studies . Al-Awni advocates for a reformed Wahhabism which he envisages as a "correctionist movement". "حاتم بن عارف العوني" . مركز التوثيق الملكي الهاشمي (in Arabic) . Carnegie Endowment for International Peace .
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saudi islamic scholar
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