Sheikh Abdul-Aziz bin Abdullah bin Baz (commonly known as "Bin Baz") has been described as the "figurehead of institutional Wahhabism", was one of the most prominent proponents of the Salafi ideology, and was the vice-president of the Islamic University of Madinah. In fact, in the 1990's, he was the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia - the single most influential Salafi religious authority, appointed by the country's tyrannical "King". The country's Grand Mufti is also granted presidency of the Permanent Committee of Islamic Studies and Verdicts - whose members are drawn from the Council of Senior Scholars (Saudi Arabia's highest body of religious clerics).
In a question and answer session, Bin Baz has been recorded here controversially revealing his Fatwa (verdict) permitting the innovated...
