Zawahiri

al-Zawahiri (Arabic: الظواهري‎, aẓ-Ẓawāhirī) is an Arabic surname or nisbah derived from name of the town of Zawahir, Saudi Arabia.[1] The definite article "al-" is sometimes omitted. Alternate spellings include Dhawahiri, Dhawahri, and Zawahri.

List of people with the surname

Ayman al-Zawahiri (born 1951), Egyptian al-Qaeda leader
Hussein al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terror suspect captured and handed over to Egypt, younger brother of Ayman al-Zawahiri
Muhammad al-Zawahiri (born 1953), terror suspect living in Egypt, Ayman al-Zawahiri's younger brother
John Zawahri, the perpetrator of the 2013 Santa Monica shooting

References

Kepel, Gilles (2004). The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West. Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 78. ISBN 0674015754. His family name originated in the town of Zawahir, in Saudi Arabia, between Mecca and Medina.

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[1] Kepel, Gilles (2004). The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West. Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 78. ISBN 0674015754. His family name originated in the town of Zawahir, in Saudi Arabia, between Mecca and Medina.