Muhammad al-Yaqoubi

Muhammad Abul Huda al-Yaqoubi is a Syrian Islamic scholar, born in Damascus on 7 May 1963. He was trained in the Islamic sciences by his father, Ibrahim al-Yaqoubi, an imam and instructor at the Grand Umayyad Mosque, who gave him full authority to narrate hadith, to teach and to issue fatwas; he was appointed a Friday speaker at eighteen and an instructor at the Fatwa directorate at twenty-three. ^{1 2}

He served as mufti of Sweden in 1999. After criticising the Syrian government's response to the protests of 2011 he left Syria and is based in Morocco, where he leads the Sacred Knowledge initiative, founded in 2011. ² His book Refuting ISIS, a rebuttal of the group's religious foundations, is published in ten languages. ² He has run a YouTube channel under his own name since 2019. ¹

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Two independent external sources attest his personal affiliation with the Shadhili order: the English Wikipedia article records his tariqa as Shadhili and describes his training in Sufism under his father until he qualified as a murshid of the order, and The Muslim 500's profile independently calls him a spiritual master in the Shadhili order. ^{1 2} The same Wikipedia article also names his jurisprudence as Maliki and Hanafi and his denomination as Sunni, but those values rest on that one source family alone, so no school value is recorded in his data record.

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