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Formerly a radical imam, al-Nogaidan had, by his late thirties, altered his thinking and his life. He now speaks out against the training of terrorists in schools and mosques in the
Islamic world, which put his safety at risk. In the eyes of Saudi liberals, al-Nogaidan, through his transition from
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In 1999, al-Nogaidan published his first article which highlighted the dispute between the Hadith School "rigid followers of
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the modern era. al-Nogaidan published research that discussed topics such as the map of the
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