Uthman Abd al-Aziz

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Uthman Abd al-Aziz

Sheikh Uthman Abd al-Aziz ( Arabic عثمان عبد العزيز ʿUthmān ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ; * 1922 in Sulaimaniya Province ; † 1999 ) was an active member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo fromthe 1960s to the 1980s. He was chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kurdistan. In 1980 he foundedthe Islamic Movement in Kurdistan in Halabja , probably with financial help from Saudi Arabia .

After the death of Uthman Abd al-Aziz, his brothers Ali and Siddiq took over the leadership of the Islamic Movement in Kurdistan / Iraq in August 1999.

biography

Sheikh Uthman Abd al-Aziz was the founder and leader of the Islamic Movement in Kurdistan / Iraq - the sheikh family of Abd al-Aziz was well known in Iraqi Kurdistan. Uthman Abd al-Azizin was born in the province of as-Sulaimaniya in a village in the district of Halabja. His father ( Sheikh Saleh Abdel Karim ) was a teacher at the school in this village. When Uthman Abd al-Aziz was seven years old, around 1930, his father took him and Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Karim and his eldest brother, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Aziz, to school to study Islam.

In the private school he graduated from (1940), Uthman Abd al-Aziz learned Islamic science. After graduation, Uthman Abd al-Aziz moved to Halabdscha (1943), where he took over the post of teaching and preacher in the Imam-al-Schāfiʿī Mosque.

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SURNAME Abd al-Aziz, Uthman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osman Abdulaziz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish-Iraqi founder of the Islamic Movement in Kurdistan
DATE OF BIRTH 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulaimaniya Province
DATE OF DEATH before August 1999