Imam
Imam (; , '; : , ') is an Islamic leadership position. For Sunni Islam, Sunni Muslims, Imam is most commonly used as the title of a prayer leader of a mosque. In this context, imams may lead Salah, Islamic prayers, serve as community leaders, ...
Liman Ibrahim is a spiritual leader in the
Boko Haram
Boko Haram, officially known as Jama'at Ahl al-Sunna li al-Da'wa wa al-Jihad (), is a self-proclaimed jihadist militant group based in northeastern Nigeria and also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali. In 2016, the group spli ...
terrorist sect. He was especially active after
Abu Zamira assumed leadership of the group. His current status is unknown.
Death of Shekau and Rise of Zamira
In August 2013, Ibrahim announced that the leader of Boko Haram,
Abubakar Shekau had been deposed by factions within the group due to his "harsh" methods. Ibrahim claimed that Shekau had been given a choice to "
ointhe peace dialogue with the Nigerian government,
ormhis own sect or
e killed" Ibrahim further announced the ascension of Abu Zamira Mohammed to the position that Shekau had occupied.
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Islamism
Islamism is a range of religious and political ideological movements that believe that Islam should influence political systems. Its proponents believe Islam is innately political, and that Islam as a political system is superior to communism ...
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Jihadism
Jihadism is a neologism for modern, armed militant Political aspects of Islam, Islamic movements that seek to Islamic state, establish states based on Islamic principles. In a narrower sense, it refers to the belief that armed confrontation ...
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Islamist insurgency in Nigeria
The Boko Haram insurgency also known as the Boke Haram Crisis began in July 2009, when the militant Islamist and jihadist rebel group Boko Haram started an armed rebellion against the government of Nigeria. The conflict is taking place with ...
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Sharia in Nigeria
In Nigeria, Sharia has been instituted as a main body of civil and criminal law in twelve Muslim-majority states since 1999, when then-Zamfara State governor Ahmad Sani Yerima began the push for the institution of Sharia at the state level o ...
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Slavery in 21st-century Islamism
Proto-state, Quasi-state-level jihadist groups, including Boko Haram and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, have captured and enslaved women and children, often for sexual slavery. In 2014 in particular, both groups organised mass kidnapp ...
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Boko Haram members
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
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