al-Ashqar, ʿUmar Sulaymān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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ʿUmar b. Sulaymān al-Ashqar (1940-2012) was a Palestinian Salafī scholar whose writings concentrate on a wide variety of issues and contributed to the political development of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood. Born in Burqa, near Nablus, on 26 November 1940, according to his own account al-Ashqar grew up in a pious middle-class home (al-Ashqar, Ṣafaḥāt , 13-24). In 1953, his family moved to Saudi Arabia, where ʿUmar focussed on Islamic subjects at university, studied with prominent Salafī scholars such as ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Bāz (d.