Muhammad bin Jamil Zeno (1925 – Oct 2010) was an

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and author. His name has also been transliterated differently in the English speaking world. Whilst his publishers Dar-Us-Salam in Riyadh translate it as 'Muhammad bin Jamil Zeno', it is also rendered as Muhammad Bin/Ibn Jamal/Jamaal/Jameel Zeeno/Zaino/Zayno/Zaynoo/Zeenoo/Zino/Zainu.

Controversy

Zeno (as Zainu) features heavily in the 2005 report 'Saudi Publications On Hate Ideology Invade American Mosques', by

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, the New York-based human rights organization. Zeno's book, ‘Islamic Guidelines for Individual and Social Reform’, featured in the 2007 PBS Frontline documentary Homegrown: Islam In Prison, which was part of the

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television series. The documentary states that his books were distributed to prisons by the controversial

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. Zeno featured heavily a study by the neoconservative

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, 'Hate on the State: How British libraries encourage Islamic extremism' by James Brandon and Douglas Murray, in which he has been described as ''"One of the most virulent

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clerics whose books are stocked in the

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libraries."'' which

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also reported on. Zeno was also criticised for writing that ''"Singing is a prelude to adultery…handclapping and whistling are abominable acts which one should abandon"'' and ''"Dolls made in foreign countries should not be bought and given to children. Why should we support the finance of…Jewish exporters?"''

External links

"Questions & Answers on `Aqeedah" (Shaik Muhammad bin Jamil Zeeno)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zeno, Muhammad Bin Jamil 1925 births 2010 deaths Syrian Muslim scholars of Islam Syrian Salafis University of Aleppo alumni People from Aleppo

Controversy

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