Safar al-Hawali
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سفر بن عبدالرحمن الحوالي الغامدي | |
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Safar bin Abd al-Rahman al-Hawali al-Ghamdi (
In July 2018, he was detained by the Saudi authorities, along with his four sons and brother, for writing a 3,000-page book titled
Biography
Safar al-Hawali al-Ghamdi received his doctorate in
Safar al-Hawali was one of the leaders of The Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights (CDLR) that was a Saudi dissident group created in 1993 and was the first ever opposition organization in the Kingdom openly challenging the monarchy, accusing the government and senior ulama of not doing enough to protect the legitimate Islamic rights of the Muslims.[3]
In September 1994, two leaders of the Committee,
Views
Like many Saudis, American libertarian politicians and anti-war activists, and indigenous religious communities of the Middle East, former veteran of the Afghan Soviet war
Hawali was invited to the First Meeting of the
Written works
Safar al-Hawali wrote a book on secularism as part of his master thesis at Umm Al-Qura. This research was supervised by Muhammad Qutb, the brother of Sayyid Qutb. Here al-Hawali traced the history of the separation between the church and state and how the idea was imported to the Muslim world. In his Ph.D. research, al-Hawali made an analysis of the separation between the claim of faith and deeds of worship.
In the year 2000, he wrote a treatise on the
After
When 60 American
Al-Hawali wrote an article in
Support and criticism
He is mentioned in Osama bin Laden's fatwa as a sheikh unjustly arrested allegedly "by orders from the USA."[14]
Samuel P. Huntington included al-Hawali in his famous Clash of Civilizations article.[15] "'It is not the world against Iraq,' as Safar al-Hawali, dean of Islamic Studies at the Umm Al-Qura University in Mecca, put it in a widely circulated tape. 'It is the West against Islam.'"[16]
Al-Hawali was named as a "theologian of terror" in an October 2004 petition to the UN signed by 2,500 Muslim intellectuals calling for a treaty to ban the religious incitement to violence.[17]
References
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- ^ "Who are the key Sahwa figures Saudi Arabia is cracking down on?". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
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- ^ ISBN 9780203961124.
- ^ al-Rasheed, Madawi (2018-07-16). "Mohammed bin Salman's reign of terror will not make Saudi Arabia stable". Middle East Eye. Archived from the original on 2018-10-07. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
- ^ "Who are the key Sahwa figures Saudi Arabia is cracking down on?", 5 June 2019, Al Jazeera. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ "Prominent Saudi scholar Ahmed al-Amari dies in prison: Activists", 21 January 2019, Al Jazeera. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ Suicide Bombers in Iraq By Mohammed M. Hafez Archived June 17, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Holy War, Inc. By Peter L Bergen, Rachel Klayman, C-SPAN Archived July 7, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Lacey, Robert (2009). Inside the Kingdom : Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia. Viking. p. 271.
... this initial gathering consisted entirely of men who were clerics. But they were not all Wahhabis. Also invited were religious leaders of the Kingdom's Sunni and Shia Muslim communities -- which prompted Safa Al-Hawali, one of the Awakening sheikhs, to decline his invitation. He denounced the inclusion of these `deviants,` to the fervent approval of the conservative websites.
- ^ Commins, David (2009). The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia. I.B.Tauris. p. 197.
[al-Hawali and al-Awda] and about 50 other sahwa sheikhs publicly condemn al-Qaeda's May 2003 attacks in Riyadh; in June 2004, they joined six ulama to denounce al-Qaeda violence and efforts to overthrow Al Saud.
- ^ An Open Letter to President Bush (www.sunnahonline.com) Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Hawali, Safar. "The Monotheists Among the Christians". IslamicAwakening.com. Archived from the original on 2 July 2007. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
- PBS
- ISBN 9781416561248.
- ISBN 9780140267310.
- ^ Militant Ideology Atlas Archived January 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, November 2006, p. 344, United States Military Academy