Ali Sadreddine Al-Bayanouni Explained

Ali Sadreddine Al-Bayanouni
Native Name:علي صدر الدين البيانوني
Office:Supreme Guide of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood
Term Start:1996[1]
Term End:August 2010
Predecessor:Hassan Howeidi
Successor:Mohammad Riad al-Shaqfeh
Office2:Deputy Controller General of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood
Term Start2:1977
Term End2:unknown
Birth Place:Aleppo, Mandatory Syrian Republic
Citizenship:Syrian
Alma Mater:University of Damascus
Occupation:Lawyer
Branch:Syrian Army
Serviceyears:1959–1960

Ali Sadreddine Al-Bayanouni (Arabic: علي صدر الدين البيانوني) is a Muslim Brotherhood leader in exile in London.[2] He was born in 1938 in Aleppo and brought up in a religious family, where his father and grandfather were both well known Muslim scholars. He joined the Muslim Brotherhood while in secondary school, in 1954, and went on to graduate with a law degree from the University of Damascus in 1963. He served as a reserve officer in the Syrian Army from 1959 to 1960. Bayanouni became a member of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood's Shura Council and Executive Office in 1972. Due to his membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, Bayanouni was imprisoned from 1975 to 1977. After his time in prison, he emerged to become the deputy leader of the Brotherhood in 1977. He left Syria two years later and eventually settled in Jordan, where he remained for twenty years. He arrived in Britain as a political refugee in 2000, after the Jordanian authorities requested he leaves the country.[3]

In the wake of the unrest in Syria he has called for the end of the Bashar al-Assad government and the convention of "a free conference of all the nationalist forces in Syria" which would enable "Syrians to develop a collective national alternative".[4]

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  1. Web site: The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria . Carnegie Middle East Center. 2012-07-29.
  2. Wright, Robin, Dreams and Shadows : the Future of the Middle East, Penguin Press, 2008, p.246
  3. News: The Battle within Syria: An Interview with Muslim Brotherhood Leader Ali Bayanouni . The Jamestown Foundation . 11 August 2005 . 22 September 2012.
  4. News: Assad's myth needs busting . Ali . al-Bayanouni . The Guardian . 3 August 2011 . 22 March 2023 .