Muhammad bin Jamil Zeno
Islamic scholar
Muhammad bin Jamil Zeno (Arabic: محمد بن جمیل زینو; 1925 – October 8, 2010) was an imam, teacher, scholar and an author.
Name
His name has also been transliterated differently in the English speaking world. Whilst his publishers Dar-Us-Salam in Riyadh translate it as 'Muhammad bin Jamil Zeno', it is also rendered as Muhammad Bin/Ibn Jamal/Jamaal/Jameel Zeeno/Zaino/Zayno/Zeeenu/Zeenoo/Zino/Zainu.
Early life
Zeno was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1925. At the age of 10 he attended a boarding school for 5 years, during which he became a Hafiz.
He then went on to study forensic science at the University of Aleppo, which was part of the Islamic Waqf. He became a Sheikh and joined the House of Teachers in Aleppo where he taught for 29 years before leaving to teach in a madrasah in the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Later he traveled to Jordan to give Dawah where he became an Imam, teacher and influential preacher.
In 1979/1980, he went onto teach in Dar-ul-Hadith al-khairiyah in Mecca, Saudi Arabia where he was a teacher for many years.
Controversy
Zeno (as Zainu) features heavily in the 2005 report 'Saudi Publications On Hate Ideology Invade American Mosques', by Freedom House, the New York-based human rights organization.
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