Abdullah Yusuf Azzam
Theologian
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam was a Palestinian jihadist and theologian. Belonging to the Salafi movement within Sunni Islam, he and his family fled from what had been the Jordanian-annexed West Bank after the 1967 Arab–Israeli War and pursued higher... Wikipedia
Born: November 14, 1941, Silat al-Harithiya
Organizations founded: Al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Maktab al-Khidamat, and more
Education: Al-Azhar University (1973), Al-Azhar University (1969), Damascus University (1963–1966), and more
Children: Muhammad Azzam and Ibrahim Azzam
Assassinated: November 24, 1989, Peshawar, Pakistan
Parents: Yusuf Mustafa Azzam and Zakia Saleh
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