al-Ashqar, ʿUmar Sulaymān

J. Wagemakers

doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_32023

al-Ashqar, ʿUmar Sulaymān

J. Wagemakers

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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…

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	https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_32023
Publication status	Published - 2020

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