page_title: Muhammad Rizieq Shihab
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Muhammad Rizieq Shihab / Biography / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Habib Ali bin Husein al-Attas (left), Habib Ali bin Abdurrahman al-Habsyi (central), Habib Muhammad bin Ali al-Habsyi (right), and Habib Hussein bin Muhammad Shihab (using black cap) While attending the event of the Prophet's mawlid in Kwitang in 1950. Bahasa Indonesia: Habib Ali bin Husein al-Attas (kiri), Habib Ali bin Abdurrahman al-Habsyi (tengah), Habib Muhammad bin Ali al-Habsyi (kanan), dan Habib Hussein bin Muhammad Shihab (berkopiah hitam) saat menghadiri acara Maulid Nabi di Kwitang tahun 1950.
context_page_description: Muhammad Rizieq Shihab is an Indonesian Islamist scholar, the founder and leader of the Islamist group Islamic Defenders Front. He currently makes his getaway in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
context_section_description: Rizieq was born in Jakarta on August 24, 1965 to Husein bin Shihab and Syarifah Sidah Alatas. Both his parents were Arab Indonesians of mixed Hadhrami and Betawi heritage. His father was Sayyid Husein bin Muhammad bin Husein bin Abdullah bin Husein bin Muhammad bin Shaikh bin Muhammad Shihab, born around 1920, a cofounder of Pandu Arab Indonesia Movement, a boy scouts-like movement for Arab Indonesians  founded with his friends in 1937 (which later became PII or Islamic Scouting Organization of Indonesia.) His father died in 1966 when Rizieq was 11 months old, and because of that Rizieq was not put in boarding school. At the age of 4, he continued his education in the Qur'an at mosques. As a single parent, his mother worked as a tailor and bridal makeup artist.
  Rizieq is a Sayyid with his clan Shihab (or Shihabuddin Aal bin Syech) lineage tracing back to Imam 'Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib through Imam Ahmad al-Muhajir. Meanwhile, his wife is also of a Sayyid family from Aal bin Yahya.
caption: Father of Rizieq, Hussein Shihab (wearing black cap) with Habib Ali bin Husein al-Attas (left), Habib Ali bin Abdurrahman al-Habsyi (central), and Habib Muhammad bin Ali al-Habsyi (right), while attending the event of the Prophet's mawlid in Kwitang in 1950.
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