Abdul-Rahman al-Barrak

Abdurrahman bin Nasir al - Barrak (Arabic عبدالرحمن بن ناصر براك بن إبراهيم البراك, DMG ʿ Abd al-Rahman b Nasir al - Barrak b Ibrāhīm al - Barrak, .. * 1933 al - Bukairiya, Saudi Arabia) is an Islamic religious scholar in Saudi Arabia.

Abdurrahman al - Barrak was born in 1933 in Saudi Arabia. His father died early, the boy went blind at age 9. At age 12, he was able to memorize the Koran and learned, among other things at Sheikh Abd al - Aziz ibn Baz. In the early 1950s, al - Barrak worked at the Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University and the College of Shariah law.

A wider public he was known for controversial fatwas. In March 2008, al - Barrak threatened two journalists of the newspaper Al- Riyadh, Abdullah ibn al - Bidschad Utaibi and Yusuf Abu l - Chail, with death, because both " heretical articles " were published. In 2010, he threatened those who advocate a gender equality, with death, as this is contrary to the Shariah.