Mohammad Yazbek

Mohammad Yazbek
Residence Bodai, Lebanon
Nationality Lebanese
Occupation Cleric
Years active 1980s–present

Mohammad Yazbek is a Lebanese cleric. He is one of the Hezbollah founders and the head of the Sharia or religious council of the organization.

Early life and education

Yazbek hails from a family based in Bodai, a town near Baalbek in northern Lebanon.[1][2] He studied theology in Iraq.[3]

Career

After completing his studies in Iraq, Yazbek returned to Lebanon in 1980.[3] He actively contributed to the establishment of khawzas, Shiite religious institutions, in Lebanon.[4] Abbas Musawi, Subhi Tufayli and Yazbek, all from the Bekaa valley, founded Hezbollah in 1982.[3][5] Yazbek supported the revolt of Tufayli in 1987 against the power inequality in Hezbollah in favor of those, who hail from southern Lebanon.[6] Then Yazbek became a senior Hezbollah leader in the Bekaa valley in the 1990s.[7]

Yazbek is the representative of supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, in the Bekaa valley.[8] He is responsible for distributing the financial grants allocated by Khamenei's office to Hezbollah.[2][9] In addition, Yazbek is the special representative of Hezbollah's secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and a member of Hezbollah's supreme council, exclusive shura council.[10][11][12] In 2009, Yazbek was again elected to the shura council.[13] He also heads the Sharia council of Hezbollah, which is also known as higher legal committee.[3][5]

Assassination attempt

On 9 December 2005, Yazbek escaped an assassination attempt unhurt in Baalbek.[14][15] The bomb blast outside his home caused no casualties.[16]

References

  1. ↑ Lebanon: One Good Reason for IDF's Interest in Baalbek Lebanonwire. 26 August 2006. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  2. 1 2 Hikmat Shreif (19 August 2006). "Israel commando raid rattles Lebanon truce". Lebanon Wire (Baalbek). AFP. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Zvi Barel (25 February 2013). "Who's breathing down Hezbollah leader's neck?". Haaretz. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  4. ↑ R. Erlich; Y. Kahati (June 2007). "Hezbollah as a case study of the battle for hearts and minds" (PDF). Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  5. 1 2 "IRGC-Hezbollah Captagon Ring Compromised by War Over Profits". Middle East Transparent. 27 April 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  6. ↑ "Sayyed Nasrallah re-elected for another term". The Weekly Middle East Reporter. 5 December 2009. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  7. ↑ "Hezbollah seeks Dollars American tourists bring". Reading Eagle. 25 December 1994. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  8. ↑ John Kifner; Warren Hoge (3 August 2006). "200 Missiles Hit Israel as Battle Rages in Lebanon". The New York Times (Beirut). Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  9. ↑ Barel, Zvi (28 February 2013). "What's troubling Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah?". Haaretz. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  10. ↑ "Hezbollah: Israel Unable to Attack Iran". Fars News Agency. 17 August 2009. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  11. ↑ "Geagea: Nasrallah Believes he has a 'Sharia representative' among Christians". Lebanon Wire. 29 December 2009. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  12. ↑ Dominique Avon; Anaïs-Trissa Khatchadourian; Jane Marie Todd (10 September 2012). Hezbollah: A History of the "Party of God". Harvard University Press. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-674-06752-3. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  13. ↑ Shapira, Shimon (17 December 2009). "Has Hizbullah Changed?" (PDF). Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  14. ↑ "Embattled Hezbollah backs Iraq 'doves of peace'". Ekklesia. 12 December 2005. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  15. ↑ "Hezbollah militant survives bomb attack". Lebanonwire. 10 December 2010. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  16. ↑ "Hezbollah militant escapes blast". BBC. 11 December 2005. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, December 07, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.