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Abu Yusaf (born c. 1987) is a high-level security commander in ISIL. [1] According to an interview conducted with The Washington Post , Abu Yusaf is a nom-de-guerre of a 27-year-old European Islamist who joined ISIL in 2013.
Abu Obaida, also known as Abu Obeida, [222] a senior IS leader who was the chief of the Hisbah patrol in Raqqa, [223] and he was arrested on 18 August 2021 in Khalis, Iraq by Iraqi special intelligence. [224] Abu 'Uqayl from Singapore, also known as Megat Shahdan bin Abdul Samad (1978-2021), is an IS fighter who travelled to Syria. [225]
Ya'qub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari (Arabic: يعقوب بن إبراهيم الأنصاري, romanized: Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Anṣārī), better known as Abu Yusuf (Arabic: أبو يوسف, romanized: Abū Yūsuf) (729–798) was a student of jurist Abu Hanifa [3] (d.767) who helped spread the influence of the Hanafi school of Islamic law through his writings and the government positions that ...
Abu al-Hussein was announced as the new leader of Islamic State by Abu Omar al-Muhajir, in the same audio that confirmed Abu al-Hasan's death. [10] The Islamic State announced on August 3, 2023 that Abu al-Hussein was killed by Tahrir al-Sham militants in Idlib province. [11] 5 Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. ابو حفص الهاشمي ...
When he was announced as the successor of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, nothing was known about al-Qurashi other than the name he had been given by the Islamic State: Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. His Arabic onomastic or nisbah — al-Qurashi — suggested that he, like Baghdadi, claimed a lineage to Muhammad 's tribe of Quraysh , a ...
Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (Arabic: أبو حفص الهاشمي القرشي) is the fifth and current caliph [a] of the Islamic State.He was named as caliph on 3 August 2023, in an audio message by the spokesperson of the IS, Abu Hudhayfah Al-Ansari, whose announcement came four months after the death of his predecessor Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi.
The Khorasan group, sometimes known simply as Khorasan, was an alleged group of senior al-Qaeda members operating in Syria. [15] The group was reported to consist of a small number of fighters who are all on terrorist watchlists, and coordinated with al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's official affiliate in Syria.
Those named Abraham received "abu Ishaq", those named Jacob, "abu Yusuf," and so on. In some cases the word abu is construed beyond the traditional sense of "father," so a person named Isaac received "abu Ibrahim" (son of Abraham) [ clarification needed ] and one named Moses received "abu Imran" (son of Amram).