Al-Zawahiri (disambiguation)

Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951–2022) was the second general emir of al-Qaeda from 2011 to 2022.

al-Zawahiri (Arabic: الظواهري, al-Ẓawāhirī) is an Arabic surname or nisba derived from name of the town of Zawahir, Saudi Arabia.[1] al-Zawahiri may also refer to:

List of people with the surname
  • Hussein al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terror suspect captured and handed over to Egypt, younger brother of Ayman al-Zawahiri
  • Muhammad al-Zawahiri (born 1953), terror suspect living in Egypt, Ayman al-Zawahiri's younger brother
  • John Zawahri, the perpetrator of the 2013 Santa Monica shooting

See also
  • Al-Zahrawi 10th century Arab Andalusian surgeon, physician, chemist, Latinized as Abulcasis

References
  1. Kepel, Gilles (2004). The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West. Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 78. ISBN 0674015754. His family name originated in the town of Zawahir, in Saudi Arabia, between Mecca and Medina.
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