{"id":401289,"date":"2020-10-19T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T08:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=401289"},"modified":"2020-10-19T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T08:24:09","slug":"saudi-arabia-restructures-top-religious-and-advisory-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/saudi-arabia-restructures-top-religious-and-advisory-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia restructures top religious and advisory bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<strong>SONNA)<\/strong> Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Salman issued a series of orders on Sunday restructuring the kingdom&#8217;s advisory Shura Council, the supreme court and the highest religious body.<\/p>\n<p>The orders, carried on state media, appointed a new speaker and two deputies for the Shura Council, an influential advisory body which is due to start a new term this week. One of the deputies is a woman.<\/p>\n<p>The king also ordered a &#8220;reformation&#8221; of the Council of Senior Scholars to be headed by Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, and appointed a new Supreme Court chief, Khaled bin Abdullah al-Luhaidan.<\/p>\n<p>He also named Ghayhab Mohammed al-Ghayhab as a senior adviser to the royal court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SONNA) Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Salman issued a series of orders on Sunday restructuring the kingdom&#8217;s advisory Shura Council, the supreme court and the highest religious body. The orders, carried on state media, appointed a new speaker and two deputies for the Shura Council, an influential advisory body which is due to start a new term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401290,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401289\/revisions\/401290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}