Nizar Rayan, described as a "courageous lion" for choosing to remain in his home knowing it would be attacked, was unusual even by the standards of a movement that boasts of the number of PhDs it has in its ranks.
A professor at Gaza’s Islamic University who taught Hadith [the Prophet Mohemed’s sayings] and took his doctorate at Sudan’s Um Dorman university, he frequently wore combat fatigues and took part in training – sometimes fighting – with younger militants. In 2001, he reputedly sent one of his sons on a suicide mission, in which two Israeli settlers were killed in Gaza.
He was the author of 10 books on genealogy and one, entitled Medina Became Dark, about the life of Mohamed, which is widely read in Saudi Arabia. The library in his house, close to the Kholafa mosque beside a large square in Jabalya, was destroyed yesterday. It was said to contain 10,000 books.Mr Rayan was also unusual among Palestinians in making full use of the permission in Islam to have up to four wives.
Asked yesterday why at least his family had not left when the Israeli army issued the warning that his house was going to be destroyed, his son-in-law said only: "He wanted to be a martyr." Read more ...
A professor at Gaza’s Islamic University who taught Hadith [the Prophet Mohemed’s sayings] and took his doctorate at Sudan’s Um Dorman university, he frequently wore combat fatigues and took part in training – sometimes fighting – with younger militants. In 2001, he reputedly sent one of his sons on a suicide mission, in which two Israeli settlers were killed in Gaza.
He was the author of 10 books on genealogy and one, entitled Medina Became Dark, about the life of Mohamed, which is widely read in Saudi Arabia. The library in his house, close to the Kholafa mosque beside a large square in Jabalya, was destroyed yesterday. It was said to contain 10,000 books.Mr Rayan was also unusual among Palestinians in making full use of the permission in Islam to have up to four wives.
Asked yesterday why at least his family had not left when the Israeli army issued the warning that his house was going to be destroyed, his son-in-law said only: "He wanted to be a martyr." Read more ...
Source: The Independent
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