Omar Abdul Rahman

GPTKB entity

Properties (51)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf mosque
gptkbp:advocatesFor gptkb:Sharia_law
violent jihad
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:Al-Gama'a_al-Islamiyya
gptkbp:alias The Blind Sheikh
gptkbp:appearsIn Documentaries about terrorism
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Al-Qaeda
gptkb:Islamic_Jihad_Movement_in_Palestine
gptkbp:born May 3, 1938
gptkbp:children 3
gptkbp:citedBy Legal cases involving terrorism
gptkbp:commanded life imprisonment
gptkbp:controversy Support for terrorism
gptkbp:convictedOf gptkb:United_States
1990s
1993
life in prison without parole
seditious conspiracy
gptkbp:criticism U.S._foreign_policy
Western_influence_in_the_Middle_East
gptkbp:died February 18, 2017
gptkbp:documentedIn The Blind Sheikh: A Biography
gptkbp:education gptkb:Al-Azhar_University
gptkbp:fledgingPeriod Egypt_in_1960s
gptkbp:healthcare Blindness
gptkbp:heldIn Anti-American_views
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Omar Abdul Rahman
gptkbp:influence Radical Islamic groups
gptkbp:influenced Radical clerics
Islamic_fundamentalism
Islamist_movements
gptkbp:influencedBy Sayyid Qutb
gptkbp:inspiration Jihadist_movements_worldwide
gptkbp:involvedIn 1993 World Trade Center bombing conspiracy
gptkbp:knownFor spiritual_leader_of_the_1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing
gptkbp:language gptkb:Arabic
gptkbp:legacy Controversial_figure_in_Islamic_extremism
gptkbp:nationality Egyptian
gptkbp:notableWork Fatwas_advocating_jihad
gptkbp:occupation Cleric
gptkbp:placeOfBirth Asyut,_Egypt
gptkbp:placeOfDeath gptkb:Butner,_North_Carolina,_United_States
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:Abdul_Rahman_al-Sudais
gptkbp:religion Islam
gptkbp:respondsTo Egypt_in_2011
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Zainab_Abdul_Rahman
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Abu_Hamza_al-Masri
gptkbp:supported Islamic_resistance_movements
Palestinian_causes
gptkbp:was A_prominent_figure_in_radical_Islam.
gptkbp:wrote Books_on_Islamic_jurisprudence