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Bandar Baleela

بندر بليلة

Mecca

Saudi Qur'an reciter and imam and khatib of Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. Born in Mecca in 1975 (1395 AH), he memorised the Qur'an as a boy and studied fiqh at Umm al-Qura University and the Islamic University of Madinah, taking his doctorate in 2008. He was appointed an official imam of the Haram in 2013 and a khatib by royal decree in 2019, joined the Council of Senior Scholars in 2020, and delivered the Arafat sermon in 2021.

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reciter
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Arabia
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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Kiarostami · Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari · Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda · Abd al-Halim Mahmud

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Mecca

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    People and things also explored

    Dar al-Nadwa· The Kaaba· Al-Masjid Al-Haram· Idol worship in the Jahiliyya and its rites· The offices of Quraysh at Mecca· Restoration of the Abbasid Khutba in the Two Harams in 479· Abu Jahl's plan to crush the Prophet's head with a stone· Abu Talib gathers Banu Hashim and Banu al-Muttalib

    Sources

    • Bandar Baleela — English Wikipedia
    • Bandar Baleela — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Bandar Baleela — Wikidata Q12199312
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    islam.museum contributors. “Bandar Baleela”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/bandar-baleela/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.

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    Dar al-Nadwa

    The council house founded by Qusayy on the north side of the mosque of the Kaaba, with its door into the mosque; Quraysh deliberated its grave matters and married off its daughters there.