Abdul Qadeem Bin Yusuf Bin Yunis Bin Ibrahim Al Sheikh Zallum (1924 – 29 April 2003) was the global leader of the Islamist political party

Hizb ut-Tahrir Hizb ut-Tahrir (Arabicحزب التحرير (Translation: Party of Liberation) is an international, political organization which describes its ideology as Islam, and its aim the re-establishment of the Islamic Khilafah (Caliphate) to resume Isl ...

, an office he held from 1977 to 2003.

Early life and education

Zallum was born in 1924 in the city of

Hebron Hebron ( ar, الخليل or ; he, חֶבְרוֹן ) is a Palestinian. city in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judaean Mountains, it lies above sea level. The second-largest city in the West Bank (after East J ...

(al-Khaleel) in

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...

. By the age of 15, he acquired his elementary education from al-Ibrahemia school in city of al-Khaleel. He was appointed as a teacher in 1949 to the schools of

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for a period of two years. Zallum wrote a book titled ''How the Khilafah was Destroyed'', which explains in great detail the events that forced the fall of the Ummah of Muhammad. He recounts several instances that contributed to the historical event and his book offers lessons to prevent the same pitfalls from reoccurring.

Politics

In 1951, he moved to al-Khaleel and worked as a teacher in Osama Bin Munqiz School. Here he met Taqiuddin al-Nabhani in 1952. He joined

in 1953. After the death of Taqiuddin al-Nabhani in 1977, Zallum was chosen to be the global leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir. He remained the head of Hizb ut-Tahrir until he resigned on 17 March 2003. Zallum died on 29 April 2003.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zaluum, Abdul Qadeem 1924 births 2003 deaths Al-Azhar University alumni Arab people in Mandatory Palestine Members of Hizb ut-Tahrir Palestinian Islamists Palestinian refugees People from Hebron