Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Rumayyan

Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Rumayyan is a contemporary Saudi academic and Islamic scholar specializing in Islamic creed and local history, known for his theological study Ara' al-Qurtubi wal-Mazari al-I'tiqadiyya Mujam Usar Buraydah.

Academic Career

Al-Rumayyan served as a professor at Umm al-Qura University in Mecca Mujam Usar Buraydah. During his academic tenure, he participated in several administrative and academic bodies, serving as a member of the university's Evening Graduate Studies Committee and the committee tasked with selecting distinguished faculty members, alongside memberships in other internal and external committees Mujam Usar Buraydah. He also supervised and examined numerous master's and doctoral dissertations Mujam Usar Buraydah.

Scholarly Standing

Al-Rumayyan completed his master's degree with a thesis titled al-Juhud al-Da'wiyya wal-'Ilmiyya lil-Shaykh 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Sa'di (The Da'wah and Scholarly Efforts of Shaykh Abd al-Rahman ibn Nasir al-Sa'di), which was published in Riyadh in 1419 AH (1998 CE) Mujam Usar Buraydah. His theological research culminated in a two-volume comparative work analyzing and evaluating the creedal views of Abu al-Abbas al-Qurtubi and Muhammad ibn Ali al-Mazari in their commentaries on Sahih Muslim Mujam Usar Buraydah.

Beyond theological doctrine, he documented the local religious heritage of Buraydah in his monograph Tarikh Masajid Buraydah al-Qadima wa-Tarajim A'immatiha (The History of the Old Mosques of Buraydah and Biographies of Their Imams), published in 1424 AH Mujam Usar Buraydah. The Saudi historian Muhammad ibn Nasir al-Abudi wrote a foreword for the book, commending al-Rumayyan's diligence, precision, and dedication in preserving historical details and biographies that were otherwise at risk of being lost Mujam Usar Buraydah+1.