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The Politics of Islam: The Muslim Brothers and the State in the Arab Gulf [1 ed.] 9781474490245, 9781474490276, 9781474490269
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THE POLITICS OF ISLAM
To Feyza Gümüşlüoğlu
THE POLITICS OF ISLAM The Muslim Brothers and the State in the Arab Gulf Birol Başkan
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Al Sadd SC
Sports club in Qatar
Football club
Al Sadd Sports Club (Arabic: نادي السد الرياضي) is a Qatarisports club based in the Al Sadd district of the capital city Doha. It is best known for its association football team, which competes in the top level of Qatari football, the Qatar Stars League. Locally, it is known primarily by the nickname "Al Zaeem", which translates to "The Leader". It is known as the best team in Qatar and is the only Qatari team that has won the AFC Champions League in Asia. In addition to football, the club has teams for handball, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, and athletics.[2] Al Sadd is the most successful sports club in the country, and holds a national record of 64 official football championships.[3]
The origin of Al Sadd's conception began with Al-Attiyah family members who excelled in football but did not wish to join any of the existing football clubs. After consulting the minister of Youth and Sports, the fami
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Al-Mabhouh was a mechanic, bodybuilder
The senior Hamas commander, who lived much of his life abroad, had survived attempts on his life before - including an ambush by Israeli soldiers disguised as farm workers.
Hamas is blaming Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, which never openly discusses its operations, while Israel says there was no reason to assume the Mossad is responsible.
The circumstances surrounding Al-Mabhouh's death remain sketchy, although Dubai authorities describe how an 11-member team carrying European passports swooped into the Gulf city-state last month, suffocated the 49-year-old militant in his hotel room, then fanned out with clockwork precision to Europe, Asia and South Africa in less than 24 hours.
Details were also scarce about what led Al-Mabhouh to become one of the founders of the military wing of Hamas.
He was not one of the towering figures of the movement and was little known to the people of Gaza, having left the territory in 1989 to work abroad.
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