Saad al-Shithri

He continued in this position until King Abd al-Aziz's death in 1953, at which point the then-grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al ash-Sheikh, invited him to be a teacher in the capital, Riyadh.

al-Shathri obtained his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees from the Department of Shar'iah in the Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh.

[5] al-Shathri has worked in a variety of instruction roles in the Department of Shar'iah in the Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, beginning as a teaching assistant in 1988 and moving up to the level of lecturer and professor.

[13] In the days after these comments, 18 articles from liberal Saudi news outlets criticized al-Shathri for his remarks, the first of which being written by then-editor and chief of al-Watan newspaper, Jamal al-Khashoggi.

[1] al-Shathri attempted to clarify his comments and affirm the importance of the university's role in the country's progress in a letter to al-Watan in which he also claimed that al-Khashoggi had misrepresented his stance.