Fighting Vanguard

Fighting Vanguard of the Mujahidin
الطليعة المقاتلة للمجاهدين
LeaderMarwan Hadid (until June 1975)[1]
Abdel Sattar al-Za’im (until mid-1979)[2][3]
Adnan Uqlah (June 1979 – late 1982)[4][5]
Foundation1960s[6]
Dissolved1982[7]
Split fromMuslim Brotherhood in Syria
CountrySyria
IdeologySunni Islamism
Anti-Assadism
AlliesMuslim Brotherhood (after mid-1979)[8][9]
Opponents Ba'athist Syria
Battles and warsIslamist uprising in Syria

The Fighting Vanguard of the Mujahidin (Arabic: الطليعة المقاتلة للمجاهدين, romanizedal-Ṭāliʿa al-Muqātila lil-Mujāhidīn),[1] also known as the Fighting Vanguard of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria (Arabic: الطليعة المقاتلة للإخوان المسلمين في سوريا),[10] was an offshoot of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood that took part in violent actions against the regime of Hafez al-Assad during the Islamist uprising in Syria, mainly between 1976 and 1982.

  1. ^ a b Lefèvre 2013, p. 102.
  2. ^ Lefèvre 2013, p. 104.
  3. ^ Lefèvre 2015, p. 128.
  4. ^ Lefèvre 2013, p. 105.
  5. ^ Conduit 2019, p. 34.
  6. ^ Lefèvre 2013, p. 101.
  7. ^ Lefèvre 2013, p. 130.
  8. ^ Conduit 2019, p. 35.
  9. ^ Lefèvre 2013, p. 110.
  10. ^ Conduit 2019, p. 100.

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