{"id":21943,"date":"2015-03-13T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/?p=21943"},"modified":"2015-03-13T03:48:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T07:48:56","slug":"meet-the-badris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/meet-the-badris\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Badris"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sheikh Abd al-Aziz al-Badri<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the self-declared Islamic State, was not produced in a vacuum. In fact, he comes from a tribe with a long history of support for Salafism. The following is a brief window into this extended family.<\/p>\n

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In the first letter calling for bay?a<\/em> (swearing of allegiance) to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Turki Binali needed to prove that Baghdadi was a descendant of the Quraysh in order to establish that he was entitled to become a caliph. Binali, from Bahrain, now holds an important position as one of the top jurists in IS, and despite being very young, is referred to by some as the “grand mufti<\/a>” of IS. The requirement that a caliph be descended from the\u00a0Quraysh is based on the dominant understanding<\/a> of a saying of Mohammad in which he declared that the Quraysh were the best tribe. This has been understood by the Sunni schools to mean that the office of caliph should be exclusive to the descendants of the Quraysh tribe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In proving Baghdadi’s eligibility, Binali not only attempted to demonstrate that Baghdadi descended from the Quraysh, but traced Baghdadi’s lineage to Mohammad himself, through Ali and Fatima (the daughter of Mohammad), by saying that that Baghdadi is: “From the the descendants of Armoush bin Ali bin Eid bin Badri bin Badr al-Din bin Khalil bin Hussain bin Abdallah bin Ibrahim al-Awah bin al-Sharif Yehia Ez al-Din bin al-Sharif Bashir bin Majed bin Atiah bin Yaala bin Douwed bin Majed bin Abdulrahman bin Qassem bin al-Sharif Idriss bin Jaafar al-Zaki bin Ali al-Hadi bin Mohamad al-Jawad bin Ali al-Rida bin Mossa al-Kazem bin Jaafar al-Sadeq bin Mohamad al-Baqer bin Ali Zein al-Abidin bin al-Hussain bin Ali bin Abi Taleb and Fatima, daughter of Mohammad<\/i>.”<\/div>\n
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Turki Binali did not need to do much research to find this out: this is the lineage that\u00a0Abu Baker al-Baghdadi’s tribe claims for itself. Abu Bakr’s real name is\u00a0Ibrahim al-Badri, and his full name is Ibrahim bin Awad bin Ibrahim ibn Ali ibn Mohammad bin Badri bin Armoush (the same Armoush who kicks off the tribe’s lineage).\u00a0He belongs to the Bou Badri tribe named after Badri who was the son of Armoush.<\/div>\n
Bou Badri is an Iraqi tribe present in Samra’, Baghdad, Missan, Wasset, and Diala. The eponymous father of the tribe, Badri, moved to Samaraa<\/a> from Medina in the 1700s, married locally, and had 5 children. Today the tribe numbers around 25,000 people, most of whom are Sunni, but with a population of about 1,500 Shi?<\/em>is, as well.<\/div>\n
The tribe includes notable figures in Iraqi history, some of which worked toward Islamist objectives and were heavily involved in religious activism. Five of these are profiled below, one of which personally supervised Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s religious studies. Most of the below are direct quotes translated from Arabic sources online. (Note that some members of the al-Badri tribe use the “al-Samera’i” nisba<\/em> which refers to their town of Samarra, rather than “al-Badri.”)<\/div>\n
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Sheikh Abdel al-Aziz al-Badri<\/a><\/strong> (1929 – 1969) \u2014 One of the founders of the Iraqi branch of the\u00a0Hizb al-Tahrir\u00a0and later emir of Wilayat al-Iraq (a Hizb al-Tahrir designation)<\/p>\n