Hasan Shehata
Hassan Shehata | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 November 1946 Harbit, Markaz Abu Kabir, al-Sharqia Governorate, Egypt |
| Region | Egyptian Islamic scholar |
| School | Shi'a Twelver |
Hassan Bin Muhamad Bin Shehata Bin Mousa al-Anani[1], known as Sheikh Hassan Shehata (Arabic: حسن بن محمد بن شحاتة بن موسى العناني) (November 10, 1946 - June 23, 2013) was an ex-Sunni, who later converted to Shia Islam, scholar who was killed in the small village of Zawyat Abu Musalam in Giza by a mob.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Shahhata studied at Egypt's al-Azhar University and in the 1970s, served as a prominent Sunni Imam to the Egyptian Army. According to his own account, after having a dream of Imam Ali and other sahaba, he converted to Shia Islam in the 1990s.
In 2009, he spent some time in jail under the government of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak due to his speeches against radical, fundamentalist Sunni movements that harm Islam. 306 of his followers were also detained along with him.[10] On June 13, 2015, an Egyptian court sentenced 23 people to 14 years in prison for the fatal lynching of four Shia men including Hasan Shehata in the village of Abu Musallim.[11]
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