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Shaykh Sulaiman al-Alwan (Arabic: سليمان العلوان) is a Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar and a ‘Muhaddith‘ (hadith specialist).[1] Sulaymān bin Nāṣir bin ʿAbdillāh al-ʿAlwān , born 1969) is a Saudi Islamic scholar and salafist preacher.[2] He is known to have memorised the Nine Major Books of Hadith. At a young age, he memorised a lot of texts in different Islamic sciences alongside the explanations of these texts.[3][4]

Fatwa

In 2000, he issued a Fatwa endorsing the use of suicide bombings against Israel, and in 2001 he supported the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan by the Taliban.[5] Al-Alwan’s mosque in Al-Qassim Province was criticised by moderate Islamic scholars as a “terrorist factory”. Among his students was Abdulaziz al-Omari, one of the plane hijackers in the September 11 attacks.[6] After the September 11 attacks, al-Alwan issued two fatwas (21 September 2001 and 19 October 2001), in which he declared that any Muslim who supported the Americans in Afghanistan was a disbeliever, and called on all Muslims to support the Afghans and Taliban by any means, including jihad.[5] In January 2002, Alwan and two other radical Saudi clerics, Hamoud al-Aqla al-Shuebi and Ali al-Khudair, wrote a letter to Taliban leader Mullah Omar praising him and referred to him as the Commander of the faithful.[7]

Prison

On 31 March 2003, 11 days after the start of the Iraq War, al-Alwan published an open letter in which he called on the Iraqi people to fight the American soldiers and use suicide bombings against them.[5] On 28 April 2004, Saudi authorities arrested al-Alwan[8] and after being held for nine years without trial, he was released on 5 December 2012.[9]

In October 2013, Alwan was sentenced to a 15-year prison term; charges included questioning the legitimacy of the country’s rulers. He was due to be released in 2019.[10][11]

See also

References

  1. ^ “Shaykh Sulayman al-Alwan, Muhaddith, Shaykh Al Islam – Biography”. World of Islam. Retrieved 2025-10-27.
  2. ^ Bernard Haykel and Saud Al-Sarhan, “The Apocalypse Will Be Blogged”, The New York Times, September 12, 2006
  3. ^ “هل حرّض سليمان العلوان على قتل جنود الطوارئ بالمدينة؟”. Arabi21.com. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  4. ^ Re-Reading al-Qaeda Writings of Yusuf al-Ayiri von Roel Meijer, ISIM Review 18, Herbst 2006
  5. ^ a b c From 9/11 to Iraq: The Long Arm of Saudi Arabia’s Suliman al-Elwan By Murad Batal al-Shishani, Jamestown Militant Leadership Monitor Volume 2 Issue 2, 28 February 2011
  6. ^ “Report of 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004”. pp. 232–3, 521. Archived from the original (TXT) on 2004-10-20.
  7. ^ Pallister, David (15 December 2001). “Mystery sheikh fuels Saudi jitters”. The Guardian. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  8. ^ Jarret Brachman: Global jihadism Theory and practice. New York 2009, S. 64f. googlebooks ISBN 9780415452410
  9. ^ “Fatwa By Saudi Sheikh: Soccer Players Are Infidels”. Memri.org. 10 January 2013.
  10. ^ “تمديد اعتقال الداعية السعودي سليمان العلوان رغم إتمامه حكما بالسجن 15 عاما”. Alquds.co.uk. 26 November 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  11. ^ “Appeals Court upholds 15-year jail sentence of ‘Al-Qaeda mufti’“. Arab News. 28 November 2013.