Safar Al-Hawali

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Safar bin Abdul-Rahman al-Hawali (Arabic: سفر بن عبدالرحمن الحوالي ‎) (born 1950) is a Saudi Islamic scholar who lives in Mecca.

He received his doctorate in Islamic theology from Umm al-Qura University, Mecca in 1986. During the 1990s, he was arrested for a period of time by the Saudi authorities for his violent criticism of the government when he distributed sermons on cassette tapes to incite militants to overthrow the government.

1 Hawali's endorsement of terrorism
2 Written works
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Hawali's endorsement of terrorism

Hawali is best known in the West as a proponent of Islamist terrorism and as a personal favorite of terrorists including Osama bin Laden( how can , it is comletly not fair to say that about him , we can refer to his messages sent to the terrorism people ' he against there work' and there is no relation between him and Osama bin laden they are not in the same line they are opposit each other.^[1] Hawali's pro-terrorism fatwas include an endorsement of the September 11, 2001 attacks.^[2]^[3]^[4] Hawali is a close associate of Salman al-Ouda, q.v.

[edit] Written works

Safar Al-Hawali wrote a book on secularism as part of his master thesis at Umm Al-Qura. This research was supervised by Muhammad Qutb, the brother of Sayyid Qutb. Here Al-Hawali traced the history of the separation between the church and state and how the idea was imported to the Muslim world. In his Ph.D. research, Al-Hawali made an analysis of the separation between the claim of faith and deeds of worship.

In the year 2000, he wrote a treatise on the Second Intifada, entitled The Day of Wrath. He argued that the Biblical prophecies used by Christian fundamentalists to support the state of Israel actually predict its destruction. The treatise was subsequently translated into Hebrew by the Anti-Zionist Neturei Karta group.

After September 11, 2001, Al-Hawali wrote an open letter to President Bush.^[5]

When 60 American intellectuals issued an article justifying America's war in Iraq, Al-Hawali wrote a counter-article, rebutting their claims and pointing to the history of US foreign policy.^{[citation needed]}

Samuel P. Huntington included Al-Hawali in his famous Clash of Civilizations article.^{[citation needed]}

Al-Hawali wrote an article in Al-Bayan magazine on unitarianism among Christians. He traced the history of those who reject the doctrine of the Trinity, and believe in one supreme god. He claimed that monotheists had been subject to great persecution, by both Catholics and Protestants; and that five among the US presidents had been Unitarians.^{[citation needed]}