Abu Anas al-Shami
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abu Anas Al-Shami | |
|---|---|
أبو أنس الشامي | |
| Born | 1969 Kuwait |
| Died | 16 September 2004 (aged 34–35) Abu Ghraib, Iraq |
| Cause of death | Air strike |
| Alma mater | Islamic University of Madinah |
| Organization | Jama'at al-Tawhid wal Jihad |
Abu Anas al-Shami (Arabic: أبو أنس الشامي; died 16 September 2004) was a senior leader in the Jama'at al-Tawhid wal Jihad militant group during the Iraq War. He was a Palestinian from Tulkarm city in the West Bank,[1][2] born in Kuwait in 1969.
According to the late ISIS cleric Turki al-Binali, he mentored Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the late spokesperson of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.[3]
Abu Anas Al Shami was a Palestinian cleric, teacher, writer, and jihadist born in Kuwait. It has been said that "from the age of 14, Abu Anas had mastered the complexities of the Arabic language, and a year later memorized the entire Quran."[4] Originally from the Palestinian West Bank town of Yabroud, Abu Anas obtained an Islamic studies degree at the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia.
In the mid-1990s he went to Bosnia-Herzegovina to teach Islam in towns and refugee camps. He then returned to Jordan and became a preacher in the neighborhood of Sweileh.[5] In the late 1990s, the Jordanian officials shut down an Islamic center that al-Shami had established in Amman on the grounds that it was promoting an extreme interpretation of Islam.