The Gulf

Saudi Arabia

Usāma Bin Lādin

Usāma Bin Lādin (1957-2011) was the Saudi Arabian co-founder and leader of the international terror organization al-Qāʿida.

Yūsuf al-ʿAyīrī

Yūsuf bin Ṣāliḥ bin Fahd al-ʿAyīrī (1973-2003) was the first leader of al-Qāʿida in Saudi Arabia.

Abū Jandal Al-Azdī

Abū Jandal al-Azdī (? - 2016) was a member and ideologue of al-Qāʿida in Saudi Arabia.

Abū ʿUmar al-Sayf

Abū ʿUmar al-Sayf (1968/1969-2005) was a Saudi Arabian jihadist leader who fought and was killed in Chechnya.

Ḥamūd al-ʿAqlā al-Shuʿaybī

Hamūd Bin ʿAqlāʾ al-Shuʿaybī (1927 – 2001) was a conservatice Saudi Arabian cleric quoted several times by Usāma Bin Lādin.

Nāṣir bin Ḥammad al-Fahd

Nāṣir Bin Ḥammad al-Fahd (1968-present) is an influential salafi-jihadist Saudi Arabian cleric.

ʿAlī Bin Khuḍayr Al-Khuḍayr

ʿAlī Bin Khuḍayr al-Khuḍayr (1954-present) is an influential Saudi Arabian scholar and part of the Shuʿaybī-school.

Sulaymān al-ʿUlwān

Sulaymān Bin Nāṣir ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿUlwān (1969-present) is a Saudi salafi-jihadi preacher and a part of the Shuʿaybī-school.

Juhaymān Bin Sayf al-ʿUtaybī

Juhaymān Bin Sayf al-ʿUtaybī (1936-1980) was a Saudi Arabian activist and militant.

ʿAbd Allāh Bin Nāṣir al-Rashūd

ʿAbd Allāh Bin Muḥammad al-Rashūd (1973-2005) was a Saudi Arabian member of al-Qāʿida in Iraq.

Bakr Abū Zayd

Bakr Abū Zayd (1944-2008) was a Saudi Arabian scholar and a leading proponent of Salafism.

Yemen

Anwar al-ʿAwlaqī

Anwar al-ʿAwlaqī (1971-2011) was an American/Yemeni Islamic scholar and a high-ranking member of al-Qāʿida in Yemen.

Nāṣir al-Wuḥayshī

Nāṣir al-Wuḥayshī (1976-2015) was a Yemeni militant and leader for al-Qāʿida in Yemen from 2009 until his death in 2015.

Abū Saʿd al-ʿĀmilī

Abū Saʿd al-ʿĀmilī is an al-Qāʿida-ideologue and a prolific Internet scholar and strategist.

Kuwait

Khālid ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥussaynān

Khālid ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥussaynān (1965-2012) was a Kuwaiti militant and one of al-Qāʿida’s top commanders.

Sulaymān Abū Ghayth

Sulaymān Abū Ghayth (1965 – present) is a Kuwaiti and was regarded as one of al-Qāʿida’s spokespersons.

Ḥāmid Bin ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAlī

Ḥamīd Bin ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAlī (1960-present) is a Salafi-cleric based in Kuwait.