Abu Hafs may refer to:
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Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi, a Muslim scholar of 11th/12th century
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Mohammed Atef (Abu Hafs al-Masri), past military chief of
al-Qaeda
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Abu Hafs Umar al-Iqritishi, early ninth-century Andalusian pirate and founder of the Emirate of Crete
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Abu Hafs ibn Amr (died ca. 928/931), last Arab emir of Malatya
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Abu Hafs al-Urduni
Abu Hafs al-Urduni ( ar, أبو حفص الأردني; 1973 – November 26, 2006), also transliterated as Abu Hafs al-Urdani, was a Mujahid Emir (commander) fighting in Chechnya. He was killed in Dagestan on November 26, 2006.
Biography Early ...
, Jordanian
mujahid who fought in Chechnya
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Mahfouz Ould al-Walid (Abu Hafs al-Mauritani), Islamic religious scholar associated with the
Taliban
The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist, militant Islamist, jihadist, and Pasht ...
and
al-Qaeda. He opposed the
September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commer ...
and has since distanced himself from al-Qaeda.
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