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Abdullah Yusuf Azzam [a] ( 14 November 1941 – 24 November 1989) 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 education in Jordan and Egypt before relocating to Saudi Arabia.
Sep 11, 2011 · Born in the Palestinian West Bank when it still belonged to Jordan in the 1950s, Azzam grew up with an abiding hatred for Israel. In 1967 his family fled east across the Jordan River after...
Sep 11, 2011 · Born in the Palestinian West Bank when it still belonged to Jordan in the 1950s, Azzam grew up with an abiding hatred for Israel. In 1967 his family fled east across the Jordan River after...
`Abdullah `Azzam is considered to be the godfather of the Afghan jihad. His writings calling for the unification of the umma through defensive jihad, and his Maktab al-Khidmat (Services Bureau), created the organizational archetype for the current manifestation of the global Salafi-jihad and al-Qa`ida specifically.
Sep 7, 2021 · Ever since his assassination in late November 1989, Abdullah Azzam has occupied a hegemonic status in the minds of scholars and participants alike over his role in the evolution of modern Islamic activism. For some, he is held responsible for developing and popularizing the intellectual and theological background to contemporary salafi-jihadism.
This was the uncompromising answer of Shaykh ‘Abdullah Yusuf ‘Azzam to the encroachments of the Western and communist worlds into Islamic lands in the 1980s. Shaykh ‘Abdullah’s militant interpretation of the Islamic doctrine of jihad1 contributed to the success of the Afghan mujahidin, and has been an inspi-
The hatred that Isis espouses was being distilled throughout the 1950s and 1960s by the likes of Sayyid Qutb and Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, all of whom have advocated violence as a legitimate...
