The Fox and Abd al-Qadir

Emir Abdelkader

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While Abdul Qadir Geylani's Secret of Secrets has been widely disseminated, the present translation is remarkable in that it combines the interpretation of ancient spiritual concepts in terms of modern English usage with the use of key words in transliterated Arabic. These key terms, translated once in each chapter, have no simple English equivalents.

The translator's intention is to encourage the understanding of these terms and the concepts they represent as the text is being read. A careful reading of the text in simple English with a sprinkling of these key terms will broaden the modern reader's understanding of ancient spiritual concepts and practices, thus adapted to a twenty-first century mindset. Ahmed er Rifai's Guidance to Mysticism has never before been translated into the English language. This ground-breaking translation uses the same technique described above, with important additions.

It was first disseminated over the Internet with the translator, Shaykh Taner Ansari, during his weekly talks with students. During these talks, Shaykh Taner gave explanation of the text by way of commentary and answers to questions from the students.

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These commentaries and some of the dialogue from these sessions have been incorporated into the chapters of the book, the result being an excellent study guide for those who are interested in a deep understanding of Sufism from the point of view of this great Sufi master and the tariqa that bears his name.

Contextual understanding of terminology and some personages mentioned in the volume is enhanced by historical data found in the biographies of the two authors and in occasional footnotes throughout the volume.

His Sufi training in the traditions of both Abdul Qadir Geylani and Ahmed er Rifai under the auspices of the tariqa that combines both teachings and methodologies lends him a singular authority in this regard. Shaykh Taner's deep spiritual connection to these Sufi masters comes through the unbroken lineage of shaykhs, from the two masters to his own Shaykh Muhyiddin Ansari, who charged him with the task of bringing these books in fresh and true translation to the modern spiritual seeker.

They have four children.

Among his associates there were Imad Eddin Yarkas alias Abu Dahdah , head of al-Qaeda's Madrid cell, who was arrested in November , on suspicion of membership in al-Qaida and of involvement in the 11 September attacks in the United States. Nasar first moved to London in , and brought his family along in mid It is possible that he fled Spain because of suspicions he was involved in the Islamist terror bombings in France.

Nasar left the journal in partly due to disagreements with the new GIA leadership in Algeria and partly as a result of a conflict with its chief editor, Umar Mahmud Uthman Abu Umar, better known as Abu Qatada al-Filastini. The latter is widely regarded as al-Qaeda's principal cleric in Europe. Through this media office he facilitated two important media events for bin Laden in Afghanistan, in particular Peter Bergen 's famous CNN interview with bin Laden in March In the autumn of Nasar left London for Afghanistan, operating initially as a lecturer and trainer in the Arab-Afghan camps and guesthouses.

He settled there with his family in In he formed a media and research center in Kabul and in he was allowed to open his own training camp, the al-Ghuraba Camp , located in Kargha, near Kabul.

Mustafa Setmariam Nasar

Nasar's camp was formally part of Taliban 's Ministry of defense, and separate from al-Qaida and bin Laden's organization, whom he had fallen out with in In a seven-page letter from mid, Nasar launched scathing criticism of bin Laden for the disdain al-Qaeda has shown towards the Taliban leadership of Afghanistan, including Mullah Omar. He is also highly critical of their strategies, and has denounced al-Qaeda's attacks on the US embassies in East Africa, and the 11 September attack on New York's Twin Towers, which he argues put a catastrophic end to the jihadi cause.

In September , Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzon indicted 35 members of the Madrid cell for its role in the 11 September attacks, including Nasar. Nasar was reportedly captured in the Pakistani city of Quetta in late October , although exactly where and when is disputed.

It appears that at some stage Nasar was rendered to Syria, [6] where he was a wanted man. Due to his prolific writings on strategic and political issues, and his guerrilla warfare experience, Nasar is a popular lecturer and to a certain degree an unofficial adviser for a wide range of jihadi groups in Afghanistan. Organizationally, however, he remained a rather independent figure.

While some reports have linked him to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , who later led al-Qaeda's component of the insurgency in Iraq, his network of contacts was much wider, and included jihadis from Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraqi Kurdistan , Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Uzbekistan, and elsewhere.

Media reports have also alleged that one of his associates, the Moroccan Amer Azizi Uthman al-Andalusi , had met 11 September organizers Mohamed Atta and Ramzi bin al-Shibh in Tarragona , Spain weeks before the attacks, but this seems to be incorrect. Nasar's best known work is the page book The Global Islamic Resistance Call Da'wat al-muqawamah al-islamiyyah al-'alamiyyah which appeared on the Internet in December or January The strategies derived from Abu Musab's guidelines to win hearts and minds amongst local Muslim communities include: Nasar conflicted with bin Laden, and a email was intercepted in which he wrote that "We are in a ship that you are burning on false and mistaken grounds," accusing bin Laden of having "caught the disease of screens, flashes, fans and applause.

Brynjar Lia of the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment portrays him as the most brilliant and dangerous ideologue of his cohort of radicals, "a dissident, a critic and an intellectual" who puts "hard-nosed realism before religious wish-fulfillment and pragmatic long-term strategies before utopianism.

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Mustafa Setmariam Nasar wrote in support of the East Turkestan Independence Movement and praised the conquest of Kashgar by Qutayba ibn Muslim and Yaqub Beg , praising the latter's buildings of educational institutions for Islam and Mosques and calling him "Attalik Ghazi" and a "good man" for his war against Buddhists and Chinese. In June , Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was reported to have published Inspire magazine — its first English language publication, [30] sprung from the imagination of Anwar al-Awlaki.

Further articles in this series appeared in the next 5 issues of Inspire. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni - Wikipedia

Al Qaeda operative captured - Nov 4, ". Retrieved 6 October New York Review of Books.

Retrieved 20 January Retrieved 2 Sep In brief remarks to Reuters, Nasar's wife, Elena Moreno, said she had also come to believe her husband was probably in Syria, following what she called recent but unofficial confirmation. For the new theorists of jihad, Al Qaeda is just the beginning. Archived from the original on 20 January Robert Fuller, who interrogated Mr. Khadr said he saw Mr.

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