Mohamed Said Ramadan Al-Bouti

Who was Mohamed Said Ramadan Al-Bouti?

Mohamed Said Ramadan Al-Bouti was a notable Sunni Muslim scholar. 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 school of theology.