Abdesslam Yassine - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Sep 20, 1928 Marrakesh, Marrakesh Safi, Morocco Died on 13 Dec 2012 (aged 84)

Moroccan politician

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About Abdesslam Yassine

  • Abdesslam Yassine (1928 – December 13, 2012) was the leader of the Moroccan Islamist organisation Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane (Justice and Spirituality).Yassine was born in Marrakesh.
  • He worked as a teacher and a school inspector for the Ministry of Education, and from 1965 on, was a member of one of the most famous Moroccan Sufi brotherhoods, the Boutchichiyya.
  • Yassine reportedly fell out with the leadership of the brotherhood over its refusal to engage more directly in political matters, and founded his own organisation.
  • Yassine was jailed in a mental asylum for three years for publishing an open letter to King Hassan II denouncing his rule as unIslamic.
  • Following his release he was kept under house arrest for many years, before eventually being released in the early years of the rule of King Mohammed VI.
  • Yassine's many publications include L'Islam ou le Deluge (Islam or the Flood), probably the best known of his works.
  • He died, aged 84, on 13 December 2012.
  • He was married to Khadija Al Malki who died in late March 2015.

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