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Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi

Personal Info

  • Country of residence: Palestine
  • Gender: Male
  • Born in: 1956
  • Age: 67
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Issam Taher Al-Barqawi, or as he is called Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, is considered one of the most prominent theorists of the Salafi-jihadi movement. The Jordanian authorities have imprisoned him many times because of his views. He was considered a teacher for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi when they were brought together in prison.

 

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He is Abu Muhammad Essam bin Muhammad bin Taher Al-Hafi Al-Otaibi. He likes to be called Asim (not Bassam, relative to the name of one of the Companions). As for the inclusion of Barqawi in his name, it is relative to the village of Barqa in Palestine at birth, then Al-Maqdisi in fame, Al-Hafi and then Al-Otaibi in lineage. He is from the village of Barqa, in Nablus, where he was born in 1378 AH corresponding to 1959 AD, and to it he is related to Barqawi, not to Barqa Otaiba, as he is from Al-Ruqa.

 

studying

He left Palestine three or four years after his birth and moved with his family to Kuwait, where he stayed until he completed his high school studies. At the end of his high school studies, he committed himself to Islamic groups. Then he studied science at the University of Mosul in northern Iraq in response to his father’s desire. As for his wish, he was to study Sharia law in Medina to study under the sheikhs in the Prophet’s Mosque. He wrote to some sheikhs to fulfill this wish. Iraq after three years, and he traveled to Medina for that, and moved in the Hijaz, and there he had contact and good contact with the students of knowledge, and some of the sheikhs from whom he took some of the keys to knowledge from those who did not heal his thirst for what the youth were looking for in terms of insight into reality and the revelation of the correct legal rulings on him, and the clear position on Rulers of time and the clear way to change the reality of the nation. So he devoted himself to reading the books of Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah and his student Ibn al-Qayyim, and the books of Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and his students, children and grandchildren from the imams of the Najdi call, which he first became acquainted with from an old copy of the Sunni pearls in the library of the Prophet’s Mosque, so he devoted himself to them for a long time, and these specific books had a great impact In his direction after that, one of the fruits of this devotion was his first important writing, which is his book Millat Ibrahim, in which it appears clear that he was influenced by the imams of the Najdi call and their writings.

 

Mobility, literature and advocacy

Development stages

Jama'at al-Tawhid wal Jihad

Led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

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Organizing the pledge of allegiance to the imam in Jordan 1996

Jama'at al-Tawhid wal Jihad since 2001

Al-Qaeda of Jihad in Mesopotamia from 2004

The Mujahideen Shura Council at the beginning of 2006

The Islamic State of Iraq at the end of 2006

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant since 2013

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His dream of entering the Islamic University in the vicinity of the Prophet’s Mosque was not possible for him for a longer period, so he traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan repeatedly, during which he met many sheikhs and groups from all over the Islamic world, and participated in some teaching and advocacy activities there, so he studied at the Sharia Institute of Al-Qaeda with the recommendation of Sheikh Sayyid Imam - Dr. In the legal judiciary between the brothers in the al-Qaeda camp, and he was on good terms with the sheikhs, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri, Abu Hafs al-Masri, Abu Musab al-Suri, and other Salafis and students of knowledge who were gathered by the Afghanistan arena, and there was the first edition of the book Millat Ibrahim, which was one of his first important writings.

 

He also had tours and confrontations with those he calls infidels, which resulted in some works, the most important of which is "The Thirty Letter on Warning against Exaggeration in Takfeer." On the other hand, he had other rounds and confrontations with the groups of frowning and deferment, which resulted in several books, including “Enjoying Looking into Exposing the Suspicions of the Murji’ah of the Age” and “Insightful People into the Misrepresentations of the People of Grief and Irjaj” and “The Difference Between Excusing Ignorance and Turning Away from Religion” and others.

 

He settled in the shrine in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in 1992 to invite people to what he called “to worship God and shun the tyrant.” He began giving a number of lessons and contacting a number of brothers who had participated in the Afghan jihad and others. So this call began to spread throughout the country, which was in violation of Jordanian law, so Al-Maqdisi and his group were imprisoned on charges of contempt of the regime. possession of his writings and arrested a number of them.

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