Saudi Arabia appointed a prominent ultraconservative scholar late on Wednesday (October 22, 2025) as the country's new grand mufti, the kingdom's top religious scholar.

Sheikh Saleh bin Fawzan al-Fawzan, 90, took over the position, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported.

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