Ramadan al-Bouti

Mohamed Said Ramadan Al-Bouti ( w 1929 – 21 March 2013) was a notable Sunni Muslim scholar who was also known as "Shaykh of the Levant". He was killed on 21 March 2013, during the Syrian civil war , reportedly in a bomb explosion, though "many questions about the death" have been raised by videos of the scene. Called a "prolific writer whose sermons were regularly broadcast on television", and "more familiar to Syrian TV viewers than anybody other than President Bashar al-Assad ", Al-Bouti authored more than sixty books on various Islamic issues, and was considered an important scholar of the approach based on the four schools of Sunni Islam and the Ash'arite creed, which is considered a heresy by the Sunni- Salafis / Wahhabis of groups such as ISIS and al-Nusra Front . As in an-Nubuwat (page 807). Additionally, Ibn Taymiyyah was imprisoned and tried by Ash'arite theologians of his time, for declaring in his book Ziyārat al-ḳubūr/Shadd al-rihal that any Muslim who goes to Medina for the sole purpose of visiting the tomb of the prophet is guilty of Shirk (therefore an apostate who must be killed if he doesn't repent)

20th and 21st-century Syrian cleric Mohammed Said Ramadan Al-Bouti ( ) was a notable Sunni Muslim scholar who was also known as "Shaykh of the Levant". He was killed on 21 March 2013, during the Syrian civil war , reportedly in a bomb explosion, though "many questions about the death" have been raised by videos of the scene. Called a "prolific writer whose sermons were regularly broadcast on television", and "more familiar to Syrian TV viewers than anybody other than President Bashar al-Assad ", Al-Bouti authored more than sixty books on various Islamic issues, and was considered an important scholar of the approach based on the four schools of Sunni Islam and the orthodox Ash'arite creed. Other than his religious works, he also has worked in literature.

Al-Bouti wrote more than sixty books on Islamic law and theology . He was a leading figure of Islamic neo-traditionalism which adhered to the four schools of thought in Sunni Islam and the orthodox Ash'arite creed. His works has been highly regarded to be a pivotal defense of Sunni Islam against opposing ideologies such as Secularism , Marxism , and Nationalism along with reformist movements of Wahhabism and Islamic Modernism . On 21 March 2013, al-Bouti was assassinated at the Al-Iman Mosque in Damascus. The circumstances around the event are still unclear. The Modernity of Neo-Traditionalist Islam .