Al-Shu'aybi
{{Short description|Saudi Islamic scholar}}
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| name = Hamoud al-Aqla Al-Shu'aybi
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| occupation = University professor
| denomination = Sunni Islam
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| creed = Athari
| movement = Salafi Jihadism
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| alma_mater = Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University
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| influences = Ibn Taymiyya, Sayyid Qutb
| influenced = Ali al-Khudair, Nasir al-Fahd, Sulaiman Al-Alwan, Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda
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Hamoud al-Aqla ({{langx|ar|حمود العقلاء}}; died late 2001),[{{DoD detainees ARB|ARB_Factors_Set_3_1161-1234_Revised.pdf}} Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf)] of Khalid Malluh Shayi Al Jilba Al Qahtani Administrative Review Board - page 2{{cite journal |last1=Gilliam |first1=Joshua |date=15 February 2018 |title=Why They Hate Us An Examination of al-wala’ wa-l-bara’ in Salafi-Jihadist Ideology |url=https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/Online-Exclusive/2018-OLE/Feb/They-Hate/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602213857/https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/Online-Exclusive/2018-OLE/Feb/They-Hate/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |journal=Military Review |access-date=1 June 2021}} commonly known as al-Shu'aybi ({{langx|ar|الشعيبي|translit=al-Shuʿaybī}}) was a Saudi-born Islamic scholar.[https://web.archive.org/web/20050224064314/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB24Ak02.html Jihadi terrorism, from Iraq to Kuwait], Asia Times, February 24, 2005
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Views
He has been seen as a radical elementCook, David. "The Implications of "Martyrdom Operations" for Contemporary Islam", Journal of Religious Ethics Volume 32, March 2004 since at least 1994 when he was quoted by Osama bin Laden in his Open Letter to Bin Baz on the Invalidity of his Fatwa on Peace with the Jews, and several weeks after the Invasion of Afghanistan."Terror for Terror", interview with Taysir Alluni in Afghanistan, October 21, 2001 Al-Shu'aybi authored a book The Preferred View on the Ruling of Asking the Infidels for Help, that is said (by ) to have been "seminal in convincing a generation they should stand against—and hate—the encroachments of the West."Joas Wagemakers, “Transformation of a Radical Concept: al-wala’ wa-l-bara’ in the Ideology of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi,” in Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement, ed. Roel Meijer (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 101.
He supported the September 11 attacks and issued a Fatwa praising the Taliban government shortly after their destruction of the Buddha sculptures in Bamiyan{{cite web|title=Saudi Arabia's Jihadi Jailbird: A Portrait of al-Shu'aybi Ideologue Nasir al-Fahd|url=http://www.intelligencequarterly.com/2010/12/saudi-arabia%E2%80%99s-jihadi-jailbird-a-portrait-of-al-shuaybi-ideologue-nasir-al-fahd/|website=Intelligence Quarterly|access-date=20 June 2014|ref=December 27, 2010 | archive-date = 2014-07-15 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140715044828/http://www.intelligencequarterly.com/2010/12/saudi-arabia%E2%80%99s-jihadi-jailbird-a-portrait-of-al-shuaybi-ideologue-nasir-al-fahd/ | url-status = live }} for creating "the only country in the world in which there are no man-made laws".Worthington, Andy, The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison, Pluto Press. {{ISBN|978-0-7453-2665-8}}, 2007
The Central Intelligence Agency accused many Guantanamo detainee of obeying his fatwa and used it to torture them without any evidence.[{{DoD detainees ARB|ARB_Factors_Set_3_1161-1234_Revised.pdf}} Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf)] of Ahmed Yaslam Said Kuman Administrative Review Board - page 65. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627101858/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/Reading_Room/Detainee_Related/ARB_Factors_Set_3_1161-1234_Revised.pdf|date=2015-06-27}}
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|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_001046-001160.pdf#66
|title = Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Harbi, Tariq Shallah Hasan Al Alawi
|date = 4 March 2005
|author = OARDEC
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|pages = 66–68
|publisher = United States Department of Defense
|access-date = 2007-12-09
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071214105856/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_001046-001160.pdf#66
|archive-date = 14 December 2007
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Legacy
Some students of al-Shuaybi are based out of the very conservative city of Buraydah, capital of al-Qasim Province in Saudi Arabia. The most important of his students are Nasir al-Fahd, Ali al-Khudair, Hamoud al-Khaldi, and Sulaiman Al-Elwan. As of 2010, the four had been in prison since 2003, following the May 2003 suicide bombings of residential compounds in Riyadh that killed 34 people, and which they reportedly supported.[http://www.ainalyaqeen.com/issues/20031128/feat6en.htm "Sheikh Nasser Ibn Hamad al-Fahd withdraws several fatwas ..."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714180247/http://www.ainalyaqeen.com/issues/20031128/feat6en.htm |date=2014-07-14 }}, Ain al-Yaqeen, November 28, 2003 The school helped to legitimize the jihadi movement's fight against the Saudi state and aided in the recruitment of new supporters when the movement began to emerge in Saudi Arabia in late-1999 and early-2000.
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