Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Qahtani
Muhammad ibn Abdillah al-Qahtani ( Arabic محمد عبد الله القحطاني, DMG Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allaah al-Qaḥṭānī ; * 1935 ; † 1980 ) was a Saudi preacher.
Muhammad al-Qahtani is considered to be one of the main characters in the siege of the Kaaba or the occupation of the Holy Mosque in Mecca , Saudi Arabia , the most important Islamic pilgrimage site . Like the leader Juhaiman al-Utaibi , Qahtani was a student of the famous Islamic theologian and Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz . Qahtani joined a group of extreme Wahhabis who made an armed attempt in 1979 to overthrow the Saud dynasty under the rule of King Khalid ibn Abd al-Aziz . He was proclaimed the expected Mahdi by the leader of the occupiers , but killed during the attack.
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical dates according to Paul Aarts, Carolien Roelants: Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril. Oxford University Press, 2015. p. 10. ( Google books )
- ↑ Short biography in EADaily , August 6, 2015 (English). Access date: September 24, 2019.
- ↑ It started in Mecca. In: The time . February 9, 2006, archived from the original on September 17, 2015 ; accessed on March 20, 2018 .
| Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Qahtani (alternative names of the lemma) |
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| Muhammad ibn 'Abdallah al-Qahtani; Muhammad b. Abdallah al-Qahtani; Muhammad Abdullah Al-Qahtani; Mohammed Abdillah Al-Qahtani; Mohammed Ibn Abdallah al-Qahtani; Muhammad al-Qahtani |
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| SURNAME | Qahtani, Muhammad ibn Abdullah al- |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Muhammad ibn 'Abdallah al-Qahtani; Muhammad b. Abdallah al-Qahtani; Muhammad Abdullah Al-Qahtani; Mohammed Abdullah Al-Qahtani; Mohammed Ibn Abdallah al-Qahtani; Muhammad al-Qahtani; محمد عبد الله القحطاني (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saudi preacher and Salafist; Mahdi the occupier of the al-Haram mosque |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1935 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1980 |