Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar Explained

Umar Al-Ashqar
Birth Date:	1940
Birth Place:	Nablus, Mandatory Palestine
Nationality:	Jordanian
Alma Mater:	Al-Azhar University
Religion:	Sunni Islam

Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar (Arabic: عمر بن سليمان الاشقر; 194010 August 2012)^[1] was a Salafi^{[2] [3]} Muslim Brotherhood scholar^[4] who served as a professor in the Faculty of Islamic Law at the University of Jordan and was also the Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Law at al-Zarqa’ University, also in Jordan. He authored a number of books on Islam, including the Islamic Creed Series.

He wrote a book about marriage.

References

1. http://islamstory.com/ar/%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%82%D8%B1 Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar's obituary
2. Richard Gauvain Salafi Ritual Purity: In the Presence of God Routledge 2013 page 302
3. Lange, Christian, editor. Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions. Brill, 2016. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w8h1w3. p. 129
4. Ovamir Anjum1 Salafis and Democracy: Doctrine and Context p. 21