Nationality yemen Role Judge Name Mohammed Ismail | Religion Sunni Islam Profession Muslim Scholar | |
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Mohammed bin Ismail Al Amrani (Arabic: محمد بن أسماعيل العمراني, Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-ʿImrānī al-Yemenī) is a judge and senior Yemen contemporary scholar. He is known by the name Judge Al Almrani; his family originate from the city of Amran in Yemen. His grandfather, a judge in Amran city, moved and settled in Sana’a (1139 e–1161Hijjri) 1117, the twelfth century of Mohammed's migration — he was the first from his family to be properly educated. Consequently, his descendants maintained the title Amrani since then, but never lived in Amran city.
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Marital status
Married, has five sons and four daughters. All family members are highly educated, their majors varying in the areas of literature, politics and ideology, but no one followed the ancestors in the Judiciary. Al Amrani is an open-minded person. He supported both daughters and sons to have equal opportunity of education.
Biography
Mohammed bin Ismail Al Amrani originated from a family deeply rooted in the area of science and judiciary and all family members have grown in this environment and gained the knowledge; grandparents in no doubt have contributed to the dissemination of education in Yemen.
Judge Muhammad Ali Amrani’s grandfather was a student and disciple of the most prominent Shaykh Al-Islam Judge Muhammad Ibn Ali Shawkaani, who has said about Al Amrani that he was the full moon (in Arabia full moon means bright). Judge Al Amrani excelled in all discretionary Education/knowledge and became among the famous ones in the Arab region. He concentrated in obtaining knowledge and did not get involved or limp in city gossip or rumors.
Today he is the Mufti of the Republic of Yemen. His advice extended to the Arab region. His most known Fatwa is the inadmissibility of the jihad against the Houthis, despite the dissension between him and the Houtis. He is visited by many scholars within Yemen and the Arab world.
His fatwas have been issued in the newspapers, radio and TV for almost three decades.
He is known as moderate Islamic scholar. He earned respect from both sectarians Zaidi and some of the fanatic (classified as the closest to Shiites and Sinis/Shafaie) and followed by both. His famous fatwa: “not to consider the Shiites astray of Islam”. He was/is still known as moderate Judge in his approach.
His methodical approach is similar to the late famous Scholar and Judge Mohammed Ali Shawkaani in the end of the eighteenth century. He was his student and follower. The late Judge Mohammed Ali Shawkaani was a famous judge in Immam’s Ara. He was involved in politics and criticized Imam’s approach, in which he was categorized as enemy to the system and was treacherously killed when he was preaching in Zabid/Yemen first university in the Arab region. Unfortunately, moderates sometimes get killed because of their intellectual independence.
His students
He had many students such as: