YASIN, ABD AL-SALAM


Meaning of YASIN, ABD AL-SALAM in English

born 1928

Moroccan religious leader.

A former school inspector fluent in English and French, he began practicing Sufism in the 1960s. By the early 1970s he had adopted a more political view of Islam and was influenced by the writings of the Egyptian Islamists 1E24; asan al- Bann 0101; and Sayyid Qutb . After sending a letter to the king of Morocco advocating the establishment of an Islamic state

a consistent theme in his work

he was confined to a mental institution (1974–77), and in 1986 he founded a movement, Charity and Justice. From 1989 he was under house arrest.

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