Izz ad Din al Qassam

Izz adDin Abd alQadar ibn Mustafa ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad alQassam was a Syrian Muslim preacher and a leader in the local struggles against British and French Mandatory rule in the Levant, and a militant opponent of Zionism in the 1920s and 1930s.

AlQassam was born in Jableh, northwestern Syria, to father Abd alQadar, a Sharia court official during Ottoman rule and a local leader of the Qadariyya Sufi order. His grandfather had been a leading sheikh of the Qadariyya order and moved to Jableh from Iraq. AlQassam also followed the Hanafi fiqh of Sunni Islam and studied at the local Istambuli Mosque under the teaching of wellknown alim Sheikh Salim Tayarah.

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