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- He was never trained as a formal religious leader, but was called shaykh because of his work preaching and his knowledge of Islam.
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Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin (Arabic: الشيخ أحمد إسماعيل حسن ياسين; June 1936 – 22 March 2004) was a Palestinian politician and imam who founded Hamas, a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization in the Gaza Strip, in 1987.
Although he was not a religious authority, he was referred to as “Sheikh Yassin,” because of his status as leader of Hamas. Yassin was sometimes referred to by the media as the “political” leader of Hamas, but he was responsible for authorizing and encouraging many terrorist attacks.
In 1989, Yassin again was arrested and sentenced to life in prison for issuing a religious order to kill Palestinians who allegedly had collaborated with the Israeli army.
Mar 22, 2004 · Sheik Ahmed Yassin, a quadriplegic preacher, founded the Islamic militant group Hamas in 1987 and presided over its rise to a violent, radical alternative to Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian...
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He was never trained as a formal religious leader, but was called shaykh because of his work preaching and his knowledge of Islam. Yasin eventually embraced the teachings of the Muslim Brotherhood and consequentially became active in promoting the revival of Islam as a complete way of life.
5 days ago · Born in Al-Jura village, Al-Majdal district in 1936; then a refugee to Gaza in 1948, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin was influenced by Muslim Brotherhood teachers in the mid 1950’s and became a member in 1955 while studying at Al-Azhar University in Cairo-Egypt, despite having no previous religious education.
As a Palestinian refugee in Gaza after the 1948 War, Yassin worked as a teacher, imam and community leader. He spent many years in Palestinian Authority, believing that internal conflict would not be in the best interests of the Palestinian people.
