Muammar Gaddafi — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Muammar Gaddafi; used for entity facts only. It gives his birth as circa 1942 near Qasr Abu Hadi outside Sirte — with an editorial note that his birth date does not appear to have been published in reliable sources — his seizure of power in the coup of 1 September 1969 that overthrew King Idris, and his killing at Sirte on 20 October 2011. Its ideology section describes his Islamic revivalism returning to the Qur'an and rejecting scholarly interpretations and the Hadith, without its text naming any school for him.