Sheikh abdirashid ali sufi biography sample
Sheikh abdirashid ali sufi biography sample
Sheikh abdirashid ali sufi...
Abdul Rachid Soufi
Qāriʾ
SheikhAbdul Rachid Ali Abdulrahman Soufi (Somali: Cabdirashiid Cali Cabdiraxmaan Suufi; born 1 January 1962, Arabic: عبد الرشيد علي عبد الرحمن صوفي) also known as Abdirashid Ali Suufi is a professional Quran reciter who holds an advanced degree in the ten Quranic recitations and is a former mufti in Somalia.
He holds both Somali and Qatari citizenship.[1][2][3]
Life
Soufi was born on January 01, 1962 in Somalia and settled in Qatar in 1991. In 1989, during the reign of the secular dictator Siad Barre, he was arrested for extremism following the assassination of Catholic priest Salvatore Colombo.[4] Many scholars have graduated under his guidance, and he has established numerous schools and centers for learning and teaching the Quran.
The latest of these is his famous mosque in Mogadishu, named Sheikh Ali Soufi Mosque. He currently serves as the imam of Anas ibn Malik Mosque in the Qatari capital, Doha.