Sulayman al-Ulwan

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Sulaimān ibn Nāsir ibn ʿAbdallāh al-ʿUlwān ( Arabic سليمان بن ناصر بن عبد الله العلوان, DMG Sulaimān b. Nāṣir b. ʿAbd Allaah al-ʿUlwān ; * 1969 in Buraida , Saudi Arabia ) is a radical Wahhabi preacher and theoretician of militant jihad . Since April 2004 he has been in Saudi detention for supporting al-Qaeda .

biography

Al-Ulwan was born in Buraida in 1969 as the fourth of nine sons. He started school at the age of 14, graduated from elementary school and dropped out of high school after 15 days. He then learned medieval classics of Islamic theology by heart and attended the teaching groups of various Islamic scholars. He married in 1989 and has three sons.

As a preacher, he earned a reputation in the conservative circles of Saudi Arabia. In the 1980s he was still distributing leaflets declaring Hafiz celebrations a heretical innovation ( bid'a ), and was imprisoned with others in Riyadh for 18 days. Al-Ulwan was initially against Salmān al-ʿAuda and the Sahwa movement ( as-Sahwa al-islamiyya , "Islamic awakening"), but in 1993 it approached them. In 1997 he was banned from preaching in mosques by the state, despite numerous interventions in his favor by prominent figures, including Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz . In Medina, al-Ulwan worked with jihadist clergymen such as Hamud al-Shu'aibi, Naser bin Hamad al-Fahd and Ali al-Chudair . In an Islamic legal opinion ( fatwa ) in 2000 he declared suicide attacks against Jews to be permitted. In his writings he deals intensively with participation in jihad, as he is convinced that the Islamic world is being attacked by crusaders under Zionist leadership. He also justified the destruction of the Buddha statues in Bamiyan by the Taliban in March 2001.

Al-Ulwan's mosque in Qasim province is considered a "terrorist factory" by moderate Islamic scholars. There he is said to have taught, among others, Abdulaziz al-Omari , a later suicide bomber in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 . After September 11, al-Ulwan issued two notable fatwa (September 21, 2001 and October 19, 2001) in which he forbade any support for Americans in Afghanistan, declared such supporters to be infidels ( takfir ) and called on all Muslims to join Afghans and to help the Taliban by all means, including militant jihad . This support was also conveyed to Osama bin Laden . In January 2002 he, together with Hamud al-Shu'aibi and Ali al-Chudair, praised the Taliban leader Mullah Omar in a letter and described him as the "commander of the believers".

In March 2002, al-Ulwan, along with other radical preachers, was warned by the Saudi Interior Ministry, under threat of imprisonment, not to give statements for the foreign press, religious advice or religious instruction. On March 31, 2003, 11 days after the start of the Iraq war , al-Ulwan published an open letter calling on the Iraqi people to resist the Western occupiers and defeat them with suicide bombings. Al-Ulwan was a brother-in-law of Yusuf al-Ayiri, a leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, who died in an exchange of fire after the bombings in Riyadh in May 2003. In April 2004, al-Ulwan was arrested for supporting al-Qaeda . Al-Ulwan was released on December 5, 2012 after nine years in prison without a trial.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sigrid Faath: anti-Americanism in North Africa, Near and Middle East: shapes, dimensions and consequences for Europe and Germany. German Orient Institute Hamburg 2003, p. 118
  2. ↑ The Apocalypse Will Be Blogged By BERNARD HAYKEL AND SAUD AL-SARHAN, NYT September 12, 2006
  3. ^ A b " Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism Since 1979 " Thomas Hegghammer, 2010. googlebooks page 90
  4. ↑ a b c d From 9/11 to Iraq: The Long Arm of Saudi Arabia's Suliman al-Elwan By Murad Batal al-Shishani, Jamestown Militant Leadership Monitor Volume 2 Issue 2, February 28, 2011
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Fatwa of Sheikh Sulayman bin al-Ulwan on suicide operations against the Jews ( Memento of the original of September 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Buraydah, Al-Qasim 07/10/1421 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.palestine-info.info @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / d.1asphost.com
  6. ↑ David Cook and Olivia Allison, Understanding and Addressing Suicide Attacks, Westport 2007, 13
  7. ↑ Report of 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 232-3, 521 ( memento from October 20, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ December 13, 2001 Page 1 of 7 TRANSCRIPT OF USAMA BIN LADEN VIDEO TAPE (PDF; 88 kB)
  9. ↑ An Address from the Sheikhs: Hammoud bin Uqla Ash-Shuaibi, Ali Al-Khudayr and Sulaiman Al-Alwaan to the Commander of the Believers (Ameer-ul-Mumineen): Muhammad Umar and those Mujahideen with him 3 January 2002
  10. ↑ US Forces are Moving Out From Saudi Base  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ali al-Ahmed, SIA News (Washington DC) March 13, 2002@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.arabianews.org  
  11. ^ Re-Reading al-Qaeda Writings of Yusuf al-Ayiri by Roel Meijer, ISIM Review 18, autumn 2006
  12. ↑ Jarret Brachman: Global jihadism Theory and practice. New York 2009, pp. 64f. googlebooks ISBN 9780415452410
personal data
SURNAME Ulwan, Sulaiman al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Suliman al-Elwan; Suliman Al-Alwan; Sulayman al Alwan; Sulayman Bin Nasir Al-Alwan; Ulwan, Sulaiman ibn Nasir al-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Buraida , Saudi Arabia