Riay Tatary

Riay Tatary Bakry (1948–2020) was a Syrian religious leader, chairman of the Union of Islamic Communities of Spain. He was imam of the Central Mosque in Madrid, Spain, as well as president of the Islamic Commission of Spain.

Riay Tatary
Born19 March 1948 
Damascus 
Died6 April 2020  (aged 72)
Hospital Universitario La Paz 
Awards
  • Commander of the Order of Civil Merit (1998) 

Biography

He was born in Damascus on 19 March 1948.[1] He settled in Spain in 1970[2] and studied Medicine at the University of Oviedo. He took part in the advisory committee for Freedom of Religion of the Ministry of Justice, being endowed the Encomienda of the Order of Civil Merit in 1998.[3]

He was interned in March 2020 in the Hospital de la Paz due to COVID-19 along with his wife; Tatary died weeks later, on 6 April, at the age of 72.[4][5] He was buried at the Muslim cemetery of Griñón.[6]

gollark: Not necessarily. Knowledge degrades over time (unless you have writing/computers/etc but even then language evolves and people disagree on interpretation).
gollark: Or they'd think it was God weeding out the unworthy and want to go to prove themselves.
gollark: (until they get horrible cancer and/or radiation poisoning; I don't know if it would be bad or immediate enough that people would form the connection)
gollark: Eventually people forget the exact details and schisms occur and whatever and people go around visiting it to pray or something.
gollark: Imagine your religion made the radioactive waste a sacred holy site which nobody was ever meant to go to or something.

References
  1. Rosón Lorente 2008, p. 366.
  2. Ortega Sánchez & Callejo Maudes 2017, p. 182.
  3. Madridiario. "Fallece Riay Tatary, presidente de la Comisión Islámica de España, víctima del Covid-19". Madridiario (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  4. Bedoya, Juan G. (6 April 2020). "Riay Tatary, histórico dirigente de los musulmanes españoles, muere por coronavirus". El País.
  5. "Muere por coronavirus Riay Tatary, presidente de la Comisión Islámica de España". El Mundo (in Spanish). 6 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  6. Vega, Luis de (8 April 2020). "Cien tumbas más para un cementerio musulmán". El País.

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