| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Encyclopaedia of Islam Three |
| Editors | Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson |
| Place of Publication | Leiden |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Volume | 2020-IV |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789004413467 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Abstract
ʿUmar b. Sulaymān al-Ashqar (1940–2012) was a Palestinian Salafī scholar whose writings concentrate on a wide variety of issues and contributed to the political development of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood. Born in Burqa, near Nablus, on 26 November 1940, according to his own account al-Ashqar grew up in a pious middle-class home (al-Ashqar, Ṣafaḥāt, 13–24). In 1953, his family moved to Saudi Arabia, where ʿUmar focussed on Islamic subjects at university, studied with prominent Salafī scholars such as ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Bāz (d. 1999) and Muḥamma…