Talk:Abdullah Yusuf Azzam

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Azzam the American Adam Pearlman Adam Yahiye Gadahn

Hopiakuta 05:40, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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The external links have been placed within their own section. A defective, non-operational link was also removed. I may return to add more. abdullahazzam

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The sentences in the lead deleted by Robert C Prenic

Shaikh Azzam built a scholarly, ideological and practical paramilitary infrastructure for the globalization of Islamist movements that had previously focused on separate national, revolutionary and liberation struggles. Shaikh Azzam’s philosophical rationalization of global jihad and practical approach to recruitment and training of Muslim militants from around the world blossomed during the Afghan war against Soviet occupation and proved crucial to the subsequent development of the al-Qaida militant movement.

are too vague, speculative and lacking in sources IMHO, but we need more of an introdution than

Sheikh Abdullah Yusuf Azzam (1941 As-ba'ah Al-Hartiyeh, British Mandate of Palestine – 1989, Peshawar, Pakistan) (Arabic عبدالله عزام) was a highly respected Islamic scholar and theologian.

So I added one. --BoogaLouie 16:19, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent work! Robert C Prenic 16:25, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sheikh?

Was he a Sheikh? Can this be verified? What entitled someone to be given this title? Officially? 81.156.13.254 (talk) 13:08, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]