# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/najmuddin-faraj-ahmad
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:50:12.274Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/najmuddin-faraj-ahmad"
name: "Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad"
slug: "najmuddin-faraj-ahmad"
description: "Najmadin Faraj Ahmad, better known as Mullah Krekar, is an Iraqi Kurdish Sunni Islamic scholar and militant leader. He was a commander for the Peshmerga unit belonging to the Kurdistan Islamic Movement during the 1991 Iraqi uprisings. Later, he founded Ansar al-Islam in 2001, and left for Norway in 2003, where he founded Rawti Shax. He was arrested and is currently serving a prison sentence in Italy, after having been extradited from Norway in 2020. He came to Norway as a refugee from Iraqi Kurdistan in 1991. His wife, Rukhosh Ahmad, and his four children have Norwegian citizenship, but not Krekar himself. He speaks Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, Norwegian and English. He had no relation to Jama'at Ansar al-Islam, which emerged long after Ansar al-Islam disbanded."
tagline: "Islamic scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mullah_Krekar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-07-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.07
  momentum:             4.062139232082144
  historical:           15.701844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 229
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13312337/"
    handle:    "nm13312337"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.krekar.co/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "الملا كريكار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fərəc Əhməd Nəcməddin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Фараж Ахмад Нажмудзін"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مەلا کرێکار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mullah Krekar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mullah Krekar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ملا کریکار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mullah Krekar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mele Krêkar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najmuddin_Faraj_Ahmad"
    title: "Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mulla Krekar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mulla Krekar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ملا کریکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ملا کرېکار"
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    title: "Фараж Ахмад Нажмуддин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mulla Krekar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ملا کریکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1952218"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump