Palestine
ʿAbdallāh ʿAzzām
ʿAbdallāh ʿAzzām (1941-1989) was a Palestinian jihadist ideologue and a co-founding member of Maktab al-Khidamāt li-al-Mujāhidīn (The Service Bureau).
Abū Qatāda al-Falasṭīnī
Abū Qatāda al-Falasṭīnī (1959/1960- ) is a Jordanian of Palestinian origin and a jihadist theoretician formerly based in the United Kingdom.
Abū Anas al-Shāmī
Abū Anas al-Shāmī (1968-2004) was a Palestinian cleric, teacher and jihadist born in Kuwait before joining al-Zarqāwī in Iraq.
ʿAbd al-Laṭīf Mūsā
ʿAbd al-Laṭīf Mūsā (1959-2009) was the leader of the salafi-jihadist Palestinian group Jund Anṣār Allāh.
Jordan
Abū Muḥammad al-Maqdisī
Abū Muḥammad al-Maqdisī (1959- ) is a salafi-jihadist Jordanian-Palestinian writer and Islamic scholar.
Abū Muṣʿab al-Zarqāwī
Abū Muṣʿab al-Zarqāwī (1966-2006) was a Jordanian jihadist militant and the leader of al-Qāʿida in Iraq.
Syria
Abū Muṣʿab al-Sūrī
Abū Muṣʿab al-Sūrī (1958- ) is considered as one of the most articulate jihadist theoreticians.
Abū Muḥammad al-ʿAdnānī
Abū Muḥammad al-ʿAdnānī (1977-2016) was the official spokesperson and a senior leader of the Islamic State (IS).