Grand Umayyad Mosque of Damascus. Al-Yaqoubi is a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, tracing his lineage through Mawlay Idris al-Anwar, (founder
al-Qarni, Ibrahim al-Dawish, Hassan al-Husseini, Ziyad al-Shahri, Nayef al-Sahfe, Moussa al-Omar, and Muhammad al-Yaqoubi. Al-Ouda joined an educational institute
transliterated. The Arabic name is the translation of 'way of pain' (طريق الآلام Ṭarīq al-ʾĀlām). The series of 14 stations currently commemorate the fourteen following
Sayyid Qutb Al-Yaqoubi (2015), p. xii. Al-Khateeb, Motaz (3 December 2014). "Daesh's Intellectual Origins: From Jurisprudence to Reality". Al Jazeera Centre