Abdullah Yusuf Azzam
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Abdullah Yusuf Azzam
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Abdullah Yusuf Azzam was a Palestinian Islamist, 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. In 1979, Azzam issued a fatwa advocating for "defensive jihad" in light of the outbreak of the Soviet–Afghan War, and subsequently moved to Pakistan to support the Afghan mujahideen.
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Palestinian Islamic scholar and jihadist (1941–1989)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Yusuf_Azzam
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2004-09-17T01:49:42Z
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2024-09-05T18:14:03Z
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