Who is Sheikh Abubakr Ahmad, the Grand Mufti of India, who helped defer Nimisha Priya’s execution in Yemen?
Sheikh Abubakr Ahmad, officially known as Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar and serving as the tenth Grand Mufti of India, has successfully facilitated the deferment of the execution of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya in Yemen. The intervention, built on his role as India’s highest Sunni religious authority and carried out through Islamic legal norms like diyāh (blood … Read more