Suicide Attack at Damascus Mosque Kills Senior Cleric, Dozen Others

إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ 

Suicide Attack at Damascus Mosque Kills Senior Cleric, Dozen Others

Senior Syrian cleric Shaikh Dr. Mohammad Saeed Ramadan al-Bouti was martyred Thursday in terrorist suicide attack at the Iman Mosque in Mazraa in Damascus.

At least 14 other people were also martyred in the attack, and more than 40 were hurt, Syrian state media reported.

Sheikh Bouti was martyred while he was giving a religious lesson to religion students in the Iman Mosque.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 15 people were killed in the attack in addition to Bouti, with dozens more wounded at the mosque in Mazraa, a district just north of the city centre.

The official Al-Ikhbariya television station aired gruesome footage from inside the mosque, where dozens of corpses, body parts and some copies of Quran were strewn on the carpeted floor.

Al-Bouti's Biography (SANA)

Martyr scholar al-Bouti was born in 1929. He accomplished his Sharia Baccalaureate certificate at the Islamic Tawjih Institute in Damascus.

In 1953, he joined al-Sharia Academy at al-Azhar University and acquired the global certificate in 1955, then he got a diploma in education in the same year.

He was appointed as a teacher in Al-Sharia Academy at Damascus university in 1960, then he was delegated to al-Azhar university to get the doctorate in the Islamic Sharia Originals and got it in 1965.

In 1965, he was nominated as a professor in al-Sharia Academy at Damascus University in 1965, then a dean and chairman of the religions sector at the University.

In 2012 he was nominated as President of the Levant Scholars' Union.

Member of the Higher Council of Oxford Academy.

He wrote more than 40 books in the sciences of Sharia, literature, philosophy, society and civilization