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such teachers as ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Bāz, Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ
al-ʿUthaymīn, and ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Jibrīn. Later he was a preacher in a
mosque in Khobar. On the German Salafi website in early 2009, Shaykh
Munajjid was well-represented with a total of twelve texts. He appeared,
for instance, in the dogma section with two texts, one entitled “What is
Aqida?”^62 and the other one on the eschatological topic of the dajjāl.^63
He reappeared in the section “Ritual Duty and Islamic Jurisprudence”
with a text on “How to behave in the following situations”^64 and one on
“Muharram and Ashura”.^65 Interestingly, the latter describes the virtues
of fasting during the mourning month of Muḥarram in a very sober
way. In a chapter about “Wide-spread innovations (bidʿa) on Aschura”,
excerpts from Ibn Taymiyya’s fatwas are cited, which also make ref-
erence to his rejection of Twelver Shiite rituals such as flagellations.^66
With the presence of a tiny Shiite community in Leipzig, the anti-Shiite
polemics do not reflect any local tensions, but insert themselves into a
broader strong anti-Shiite sentiment among Salafis.
Another scholar, who is almost equally well-represented with eleven
texts on the website, is the late Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī
(1909–1999).^67 He was the son of a clockmaker from Albania^68 and
had a reputation of being the Hadith scholar of his time (muḥaddith
al-ʿaṣr).^69 He is followed by the Saudi scholar, Muḥammad Ibn Ṣāliḥ
62 Al-Munadschid, Scheich Muhammad Salih: Was ist Aqida?, translated from
English by Abu Imran, 2006; online: http://www.salaf.de/swf/aqd0001.swf,
accessed Dec. 03, 2010, three pages.
63 A central evil figure in Islamic eschatology, see Al-Munadschid, Scheich Muham-
mad Salih: Der Dadschal, 2006; online: http://www.salaf.de/swf/aqd0011.swf,
accessed Dec. 05, 2010, eleven pages.
64 Al-Munadschid, Scheich Muhammad Salih: Wie man sich in folgenden Situ-
ationen verhält, translated from English to German by Azad ibn Muhammad,
2002; online: http://www.salaf.de/swf/ibd0012.swf, accessed Dec. 04, 2010, 31
pages.
65 Al-Munadschid, Scheich Muhammad Salih: Muharram und Aschura, translated
from the English by Somaya K. Lemcke, 2006; online: http://www.salaf.de/swf/
ibd0009.swf, accessed Dec. 04, 2010, 13 pages.
66 Ibid.
67 Al Albānī , Muḥammad Nāṣiruddīn: The Face Veil (Der Gesichtsschleier), trans-
lated from Arabic by Dr. Bilāl Philip and translated from English into German
by Umm Laysa’, 2008; online: http://www.salaf.de/swf/ges0015.swf, accessed
Dec. 04, 2010, twelve pages.
68 An Introduction to the Salafī Daʿwa; online: http://www.qss.org/articles/salafi/
text.html, accessed Dec. 03, 2010.
69 On his political stance, see Lacroix, Stéphane: Al-Albani’s Revolutionary
Approach to Hadith, in: ISIM Review 21 (2008), pp. 6–7.
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