Abu Ishaq al-Heweny

Jun 4

EMAN website-03.jpg — **DOB:** 1 June 1956

**Nationality:** Egypt

**Location:** Egypt

**Ideology/Affiliation:** Salafism/Sunni Islam

**Type of Leader:** Preacher

Biography

Hijazi Muhammed Yousuf Sherif, known as Abu Ishak al Heweny, is an Egyptian Salafi preacher from Kafr El Cheikh region. Unlike other scholars, Al Heweny did not graduate from famous religious schools in Egypt or in other Muslim countries. Instead, he learned Hadith and Sharia in mosques from famous Sheikhs such as bin Baz, al Uthaimin, and Al Albani. Al Heweny’s official website says that he is a Salafi who considers other religious groups, including Shia, Sufis, Qadariyah as misguided.

Al Heweny is well known for his extremist views. In the early 1990s, Al Heweny encouraged Muslims to solve their financial hardships by initiating Jihad against the West. According to Al Heweny, Jihad was a good solution to fight poverty in Muslim countries. Furthermore, in one of his speeches, he called the Jews a wicked people with whom peace can never be achieved.

In 2015, Al Heweny wrote an article criticising mixing between men and women in Muslim societies and calls for consolidating women’s rights in the Egyptian society. The article includes also a section arguing that women’s right to education is the first step taken by the enemies of Islam.

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Evidence of Hate Speech/Incitement:

April 2021: In a video under the title “ How heresy sects arose?”Al Heweny calls a number of Islamic doctrines “ bidʻah (Arabic: بدعة‎; English: heresy), including Ash’arism and Mu’tazila.

February 2015: In a recorded speech, Abu Ishak al Heweny describes the danger of the Jews in the Islamic world.