Ṣāliḥ bin Fawzān al-Fawzān (Arabic: صالح بن فوزان الفوزان; born 28 September 1933)[1] is an Islamic scholar and has been a member of several high religious bodies in Saudi Arabia.

[1] He was a student at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, where he initially studied at the faculty of Sharia, graduating in 1960, before earning a master's and doctorate in Fiqh.

As for the modernist interpretation that Islam totally abolished slavery, he dismissed its exponents saying, "They are ignorant, not scholars.

"It is attributed to me that I prohibited the buffet and this is an apparent lie motivated by fantasy and fabrication," al-Fawzān said in the statement posted on his website.

"The fact is that I was asked about a phenomenon in some restaurants where owners tell their customers: eat what you like from the displayed food and pay a lump sum.

According to The Independent, "Speaking in a televised broadcast, Sheikh Ṣāliḥ bin Fawzān al-Fawzān was asked about "a new trend of taking pictures with cats" which "has been spreading among people who want to be like the Westerners".

"[11][12][13][14] Feminist activist Hala Al-Dosari (fellow of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard) and Abdullah Alaoudh (senior fellow of Georgetown University and son of Salman al-Awdah) say Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān is treated like a father figure by Mohammed bin Salman.

A month before the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, al-Fawzān issued a threatening fatwa calling for killing critics of the Saudi government.