Draft:Mohammad Rizieq Shihab
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| Name | Mohammad Rizieq Shihab |
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| Birth Place | Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Brith Date | 1965 CE |
| Religion | Islam |
Mohammad Rizieq Shihab is a political leader, religious scholar, and founder of the Islamic Defenders Front, one of the prominent Islamic figures in Indonesia who has millions of followers.[1]
Lineage
Mohammad Rizieq bin Hussein bin Muhammad bin Hussein bin Abdullah bin Hussein bin Muhammad bin Sheikh bin Muhammad bin Ali bin Muhammad bin Ahmad Shihab al-Din al-Asghar bin Abdulrahman al-Qadi bin Ahmad Shihab al-Din al-Akbar bin Abdulrahman bin Ali bin Abi Bakr al-Sakran bin Abdulrahman al-Saqqaf bin Muhammad Mawla al-Dawilah bin Ali bin Alawi al-Ghayyur bin al-Faqih al-Muqaddam Muhammad bin Ali bin Muhammad Sahib Mirbat bin Ali Khali' Qasam bin Alawi bin Muhammad bin Alawi bin Ubaydullah bin Ahmad al-Muhajir bin Isa bin Muhammad al-Naqib bin Ali al-Uraydi bin Ja'far al-Sadiq bin Muhammad al-Baqir bin Ali Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin bin Husayn ibn Ali bin Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, and Imam Ali was the husband of Fatima daughter of Muhammad (peace be upon him and his progeny).
He is the thirty-seventh grandson of the Prophet of Islam Muhammad (peace be upon him and his progeny).
Birth and Upbringing
He was born on 24 August 1965 in Jakarta, Indonesia. His father, Hussein Shihab, was one of the founders of the Arab Preachers Movement in Indonesia. He was 11 months old when his father passed away, and he was raised under the care of his mother, Sayyidah Alatas. He was educated in Jakarta schools and completed his primary education there. He continued his secondary education in Tangerang and graduated in 1982 CE.
Education
He then enrolled for one year at the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in Jakarta and received a scholarship to continue his studies in Saudi Arabia at King Saud University in Riyadh. He specialized in the Department of Islamic Studies in Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh at the Faculty of Education and obtained a Bachelor's degree with honors in 1990 CE. He lived in Saudi Arabia for nearly eight years and then returned to Indonesia in 1992. He later continued his studies at a university in Malaysia and received his Master's degree from the International Islamic University in 2008.
Activities
Mohammad Rizieq Shihab announced the establishment of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) on 17 August 1998 as an Islamic organization based in Jakarta. This organization operates in enjoining good and forbidding evil and various social services throughout Indonesia.[2]
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References
"Brief Biography of Habib Muhammad Rizieq bin Husein bin Muhammad Shihab Lc". Majelis Ta'lim Basaudan. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020.