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Influential Muslim cleric and thinker Yusuf al-Qaradawi dies aged 96

Influential Muslim cleric and thinker Yusuf al-Qaradawi has died aged 96 in Doha, Qatar.

The Egyptian scholar combined scholarship and political activism in his approach to Islamic law and gained millions of followers globally. Qaradawi was closely associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and spent most of his life in exile
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