Abdullatif Ahmad Mustafa | |
Honorific Prefix: | Sheikh |
Birth Date: | 1969 |
Birth Place: | Iraqi Kurdistan |
Occupation: | Salafi preacher, TV channel owner |
Education: | Al-Mustansiriya University |
Religion: | Sunni Islam (Salafism) |
Abdullatif Ahmad Mustafa (born 1969)[1] is a Kurdish religious figure and a Salafi preacher in Iraqi Kurdistan.[2] [3] [4]
After completing his primary, secondary and high school education, he went to Baghdad to learn Arabic and was admitted to the Arabic Department of Al-Mustansiriya University. After graduating from the university in 1992, he was employed as a teacher in Chwarqurna, a small city in Ranya District. After a while, he left the country and visited several other Islamic countries to study Sharia. He later completed his master's and doctorate in Tikrit. He then earned another doctorate in Saudi Arabia.[2]
Abdullatif Ahmad has appeared in Kurdish media several times. In 2012, he appeared in a series of videos on NRT News. He is currently the director of Amozhgari, a Salafi channel in the Kurdish language, and the imam of the Behesht Mosque in Sulaymaniyah.[5]