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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 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 ...
Abu Obaida, also known as Abu Obeida, [224] a senior IS leader who was the chief of the Hisbah patrol in Raqqa, [225] and he was arrested on 18 August 2021 in Khalis, Iraq by Iraqi special intelligence. [226] Abu 'Uqayl from Singapore, also known as Megat Shahdan bin Abdul Samad (1978-2021), is an IS fighter who travelled to Syria. [227]
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 Ayyub al-Masri (an Egyptian also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir [30]), was the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq from June 2006 until its dissolution in October 2006. [31] Weeks after the formation of ISI, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir gave bay'ah to Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and declared that AQI had ceased to exist, being entirely supplanted by the ISI.
A caliph is the supreme religious and political leader of an Islamic state known as the caliphate. [1] [2] Caliphs (also known as 'Khalifas') led the Muslim Ummah as political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, [3] and widely-recognised caliphates have existed in various forms for most of Islamic history.
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 ...
As result of its increasing activity in central and southern Somalia, the rivalry between ISS and al-Shabaab reignited in full, with several clashes occurring between the groups. In October 2018, al-Shabaab executed ISS deputy, Mahad Maalin in Mogadishu, [ 46 ] while Islamic State forces ambushed an al-Shabaab group near B'ir Mirali, southwest ...