Al-Bu Badri
Iraqi tribe
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History
The eponymous founder of the tribe, Badri bin Armoush, moved from Medina in modern-day Saudi Arabia to Samarra in Iraq in the 1700s. He married an Iraqi woman and had five sons.
Modern history
Some notable members of this tribe are as follows:
- Ibrahim bin Awad bin Ibrahim ibn Ali ibn Mohammad bin Badri bin Armoush, commonly known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the deceased former leader of the Islamic State movement.[1]
- Abd al-Aziz al-Badri, founder of the Iraqi branch of the international Islamic movement Hizb ut-Tahrir. Also close to the Muslim Brotherhood in Iraq. Executed in 1969 by the Ba'ath regime.
- Subhi al-Badri al-Samerai, Sunni Islamic scholar. He taught at the Iraqi University (formerly Islamic University).
- Haitham al-Badri, emir of Saladin Governorate for Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn. Ordered the 2006 al-Askari mosque bombing.