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...When Mullah Omar, founder of the Taliban, was in Kandahar on the way to take Kabul in 1996, he went to the Kirka Sharif shrine....
...More than 20 graduates of Iran’s prestigious universities, including Sharif University of Technology, Amir Kabir University of Technology and the Iran University of Science and Technology, were passengers...
...At Finsbury Park, Hussein Sharif was trying to learn the condition of two cousins who he said were among the injured taken to hospital....
...Suldan Farah, an aid consultant who was an adviser to former Somali president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, warns against a loss of momentum....
...Known as Ashura, the day is dedicated to the memory of an epic battle in Karbala, southern Iraq, about 14 centuries ago in which Imam Hussain, the Prophet Mohammed’s grandson, was massacred along with 72...
...of democracy to be un-Islamic,” says Mohammed Rehan, a bespectacled 22-year-old with a wispy beard, who studies at one of Pakistan’s 20,000 madrasas – religious schools – and hopes one day to become an imam...
...Some men had been observing traditional self-flagellation rites to mark Ashura, which commemorates the seventh century death of the Prophet Mohammed’s grandson, Imam Hussein....
...According to Sharif El-Gamal, chief executive of Soho Properties, the location was picked to serve the growing Muslim population in lower Manhattan....
...In envisioning the mosque’s new metamorphosis as a house of prayer and cultural centre, American-born developer Sharif El-Gamal and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, a naturalised American, have a grand vision for...
..., Sharif Gamal, to build a 13-floor Islamic centre with a prayer space, three blocks from Ground Zero....
...“The purpose of the money,” Mohammed Sharif, Rochdale’s lead councillor on Prevent, told me, “is to bring all people together.”...
...al-Sharif, the Egyptian Islamist better known as “Dr Fadl” who once led the terrorist group Al-Jihad....
...Sidney Jones, senior adviser to the International Crisis Group in Jakarta, said there was unlikely to be a large-scale attack organised by Jemaah Islamiyah....
...Yet one of this year’s greatest breakthroughs came from a comedy starring Egypt’s best-known actors, Adel Imam and Omar Sharif....
...find that the worst part was that Musharraf successfully duped the western powers, including the US, to believe that he was a force for stability, positive change and above all enlightenment,” says Fakhr Imam...
...Terrorism experts point to Sayeed Imam al-Sharif, a founder of the extremist Egyptian Islamic Jihad group and mentor to Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda’s second in command, who recently wrote a book from his...
...In November 2007 Sayyid Imam al-Sharif (“Dr Fadl”) published his book, Rationalizations on Jihad in Egypt and the World, in serialised form....
...completely against him,” Mr Imam said. ”I just don’t see how Musharraf can continue to hold charge of this country any more.”...
...The two men are Sheikh Salman al-Oudah, an influential Saudi religious scholar, and Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, an Egyptian known as Dr Fadl, currently in an Egyptian jail....
...“Any professional army would have sleepless nights if that number of soldiers defected without a fight,” says Fakhr Imam, a senior figure in Ms Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s party and a former speaker of the...
...One student asked me in Sharif University things like ‘you are exceptional and so on and tell me how you planned it and how I can be successful like you?’...
...In a sermon, the imam told worshippers: “Those who demolish the house of the Muslims are the enemies of God.”...
...“There’s a link between those people and Imam Samudra and [the] group of Australian embassy bombers,” he said....
...“Peace is still a mirage,” says Imam Suja, a respected Acehnese Islamic leader and member of parliament. “Will it ever materialise?...
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