Hassan ben farhan al-maliki biography
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Hassan ben farhan al-maliki biography
Hassan al-Maliki
Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar
Hassan Farhan al-Maliki (Arabic: حسن بن فرحان المالكي) is a Saudi religious reformist thinker who was arrested in September 2017 and put on trial in October 2018 by Saudi authorities.
He was arrested for a host of reasons, namely his opinions about the veracity of certain sayings attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, his criticism of several 7th century Islamic figures, "insulting the country's rulers and the Supreme Council of Religious Scholars, and describing them as extremist", accusing Gulf countries of supporting ISIS, praising Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, "having sympathy" for the Houthi group in Yemen, and crossing illegally from Saudi Arabia into northern Yemen for research about his family origins and history in 2001, after Saudi authorities had banned him from travel abroad.[2]
Career and arrest
Hassan al-Maliki, prior to his arrest, was a writer, researcher and Islamic historian.
His views