Salah Sultan

Salah Sultan (also transliterated Salah Soltan; born c. 1960) is an Islamic scholar, preacher, and academic. Among the titles and positions he has held are professor of Islamic Law at Cairo University, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, president of the American Center for Islamic Research, Columbus, Ohio, and member of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, member of the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA), and a "senior member" of the international Muslim Brotherhood. He was known in Egypt as "one of the most respected Islamic scholars in the country", but then was sentenced to death after being found guilty of inciting murder in March 2015, in a case known as the "Rabaa control room" or "Rabaa Operation Trial".