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Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, a former energy minister of Saudi Arabia who steered the kingdom s oil policies for nearly 25 years, has died in London. He was 90.
He will be buried in Makkah, where he was born. Sheikh Yamani was one of three children born to Hassan Yamani, a respected scholar of Islamic law and former grand mufti in Indonesia. His paternal ancestors came from Yemen.
“It is shocking; we still don’t believe it. It takes time,” Mai Yamani, 64, the eldest of his children, who was by his side when he died, told
The National. “Even with all the machines around him in the hospital, he was majestic.”