A Saudi writer in political and cultural affairs and researcher of Islamic movements and currents, who was born in the village of Masada Al-Najdiyah near the city of Al-Dawadmi. He studied the first three years in his village and moved with his family in 1980 to Riyadh until the...Read more end of high school. He completed his university studies later in 1989 and joined the local religious current that adopted Islamic knowledge as a basic goal and took hostile stances towards songs, acting, and so on. In 1991, he joined the Muslim Brotherhood and stayed with them until he was imprisoned in Al-Ha'ir Prison in 1992 with Mashari al-Thaydi until he was released in 1994. After his release, he caused some schism among the Brotherhood. He fled because of being pursued, after the Al Olaya bombing, to Yemen, Jordan, and some Arab countries, and there, he read on criticism of heritage and the purposes of Sharia. He returned to Saudi Arabia after two years with a completely different way of thinking from his previous thoughts after he reviewed books on secularism, modernity, Marxism, and nationalism. He is known for the series Black Garments (2017).
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A Saudi writer in political and cultural affairs and researcher of Islamic movements and currents, who was born in the village of Masada Al-Najdiyah near the city of Al-Dawadmi. He...Read more studied the first three years in his village and moved with his family in 1980 to Riyadh until the end of high school. He completed his university studies later in 1989 and joined the local religious current that adopted Islamic knowledge as a basic goal and took hostile stances towards songs, acting, and so on. In 1991, he joined the Muslim Brotherhood and stayed with them until he was imprisoned in Al-Ha'ir Prison in 1992 with Mashari al-Thaydi until he was released in 1994. After his release, he caused some schism among the Brotherhood. He fled because of being pursued, after the Al Olaya bombing, to Yemen, Jordan, and some Arab countries, and there, he read on criticism of heritage and the purposes of Sharia. He returned to Saudi Arabia after two years with a completely different way of thinking from his previous thoughts after he reviewed books on secularism, modernity, Marxism, and nationalism. He is known for the series Black Garments (2017).