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Muhammad al-Yaqoubi
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “syrian islamic scholar and murshid”. Today it says “syrian islamic scholar”.
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Syrian Islamic scholar (born 1963) Not to be confused with Mohammad Yaqoobi . Muhammad Abul Huda al-Yaqoubi ( Arabic : محمد أبو الهدى اليعقوبي ; born 7 May 1963) is a Syrian Islamic scholar . He has opposed former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi . "Syrian cleric who led funeral prayers for Peter Kassig speaks out against Islamic State, Assad" .
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syrian islamic scholar and murshid
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syrian islamic scholar
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