Born in 1365H, corresponding to 1946, in Al-Dawadmi, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, H.E. Sheikh Dr. Bakr bin Abdullah Abu Zayd obtained his bachelor’s degree in Sharia from Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University, a master’s degree from the Higher Institute of Judiciary and a doctorate from the same institute.

His Excellency held numerous scientific and managerial positions within Saudi Arabia, including Imam-Khatib and lecturer at the Prophet’s Mosque, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Justice, member of the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars, the Permanent Committee for Scientific Research and Fatwa, member of the Saudi Judicial Council, judge at the Al-Madinah Supreme Court, member of the Islamic Fiqh Council of the Muslim World League, lecturer at the Higher Institute of Judiciary, and of graduate studies at the College of Sharia in Riyadh, as well as a curator of the public library of the Islamic University in Madinah.

H.E. Sheikh Dr. Bakr bin Abdullah Abu Zayd was the delegate member of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the Council of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy and was elected its first president and remained so until his passing away in Riyadh in 1429H, corresponding to 2008. May Allah have mercy, pardon him, and grant him peace and paradise.