Influential Muslim religious leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi dies

Qaradawi's death was announced on his official Twitter account [File: Graeme Robertson/Getty Images]

Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, one of the Sunni Muslim world’s most influential religious scholars, has died.

Al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian who was based in Qatar, was the chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, and also a spiritual leader for the Muslim Brotherhood. He was 96 years old.