Egypt
Ayman al-Ẓawāhirī
Ayman al-Ẓawāhirī (1951- ) is the current leader of al-Qāʿida and former member of Egyptian Jamāʿat al-Jihād.
Abū Bakr Nājī
Abū Bakr Nājī (1961-2008) was purported as the head of media and propaganda for al-Qāʿida.
Abū Ayyūb al-Maṣrī
Abū Ayyūb al-Maṣrī (1968-2010) was the Egyptian militant and senior aide to the former leader of al-Qāʿida in Iraq, Abū Muṣʿab al-Zarqāwī.
Sayyid Quṭb
Sayyid Quṭb (1906-1966) was an Egyptian author, Islamic theoretician, poet and leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s.
Muḥammad Quṭb
Muḥammad Quṭb (1919-2004) was the brother of Sayyid Quṭb and an Islamic scholar based in the later years of his life in Saudi Arabia.
Hānī al-Sibāʿī
Hānī al-Sibāʿī (1961-present) is an Islamist Egyptian scholar who lives in exile in London.
Muḥammad Muṣṭafā al-Muqrīʾ
Muḥammad Muṣṭafā al-Muqrīʾ (?-2014) was an Egyptian Islamist scholar and cleric.
ʿAbd al-Qāḍir Bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
ʿAbd al-Qādir Bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (1950 - present) also known as “Dr. Faḍl” is an Egyptian jihadist theologian and former member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
Aḥmad Shākir
Aḥmad Shākir (1852-1958) was an Egyptian theologian working as Deputy Chief Justice, the highest sharīʿa court.