# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abu-muhammad-al-maqdisi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:30:14.750Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abu-muhammad-al-maqdisi"
name: "Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi"
slug: "abu-muhammad-al-maqdisi"
description: "Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, whose real name is Assem ibn Muhammad ibn Tahir al-Barqawi, is a Palestinian writer and Salafi Islamist scholar. Al-Maqdisi is known for popularizing several significant themes within radical Islam, including the theological concept of Al-Wala' wal-Bara'. He is regarded as one of the earliest public Islamists to openly denounce the Saudi royal family as apostates from Islam. Al-Maqdisi posits that democracy functions as a religion in its own right and has accused Muslim advocates of democracy of apostasy. Additionally, he is recognized as the mentor of Jordanian jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who served as the initial leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. In 2004, a significant ideological and methodological divide emerged between al-Maqdisi and al-Zarqawi due to the latter's declaration of takfir against all Iraqi Shīʿites. Al-Maqdisi advocated for targeted killings of Shīʿites instead, to prevent al-Zarqawi's approach from becoming counterproductive."
tagline: "Jordanian-Palestinian Islamist writer (born 1959)"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-07-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.91268
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump