Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, (Arabic: سيد إمام الشريف, Sayyid ‘Imām ash-Sharīf); aka "Dr. Fadl" and Abd Al-Qader Bin 'Abd Al-'Aziz, has been described as a "major" figure "in the global jihad movement." He is said to be "one of Ayman Al-Zawahiri's oldest associates, and his book al-'Umda fi I'dad al-'Udda ("The Essentials of Making Ready [for Jihad]"), was used as a jihad manual in Al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. Fadl is reported to be one of ...
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Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, (Arabic: سيد إمام الشريف, Sayyid ‘Imām ash-Sharīf); aka "Dr. Fadl" and Abd Al-Qader Bin 'Abd Al-'Aziz, has been described as a "major" figure "in the global jihad movement." He is said to be "one of Ayman Al-Zawahiri's oldest associates, and his book al-'Umda fi I'dad al-'Udda ("The Essentials of Making Ready [for Jihad]"), was used as a jihad manual in Al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. Fadl is reported to be one of the first members of Al Qaeda’s top council.
He has recently attacked al-Qaeda and called for a stop to violent jihad activities both in Western and Muslim countries.
He is reported to have two wives, with four sons and two daughters between them.
According to Human Rights Watch, Sharif was born in 1950, in the southern Egyptian province of Bani Swaif seventy-five miles south of Cairo. His father was a headmaster in Beni Suef. Sharif studied the Koran, and was a hafez (i.e. he had memorized the Quran) by time he finished sixth grade. At...
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