of Mohamed Said Ramadan Al-Bouti's stance of supporting the Syrian government. However, after Al-Bouti's assassination on 21 March 2013, al-Yaqoubi claimed that Al-Bouti was a martyr and that he had been privately readying to defect from the Syrian government. In August 2013, al-Yaqoubi said: "Animosity against a state cannot be declared by individuals or groups; no Islamic government is in a state of war with the UK; they all have diplomatic relations and therefore, any attack against UK citizens or interests would be deemed as un-Islamic and illegal in the Shari’a, regardless of whether we approve of UK policies or not, or its government". In the April 2016 issue of Dabiq Magazine, The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant declared him a murtadd (or apostate). Awards In 2012, al-Yaqoubi was listed in The 500 Most Influential Muslims by Georgetown University's Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding and the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre of Jordan as well as being listed in the honourable mentions in both 2015 and 2016 Personal life In 1985, al-Yaqoubi's father, Ibrahim al-Yaqoubi, died. In 2006, al-Yaqoubi's first wife, Farizah, died in a car accident, he personally wrote a eulogy on an online obituary in which he stated that she used to pray 100 rak’as of salah every day. Selected bibliography Books Al-Lum’atul Mārdiniyah fī sharhil Yāsaminiyah: A study The Shimmer of Al-Māridinī in the Explanation of the Treatise by al-Yāsamīn, (Arabic), Dār Ibn ‘Ābidīn, 1985 Al-Anwar fi Shama'il al-Nabiy al-Mukhtar, by al-Baghawi, preface and indices, Al-Maktabu publishing House Ahkam al-Tas'ir fil: Fiqh al-Islamic Rulings on Price-fixing in Islamic Law, Dar al-Basha'ir al-Islamiyyah, Beirut, 2000’' Husn al-Fahm li Mas'alati al-Qadā'i fil 'Ilm: Understanding Court procedures according to Magistrates' knowledge, Dar al-Basha'ir al-Islamiyyah, Beirut, 2000’' Refuting ISIS: A Rebuttal Of Its Religious And Ideological Foundations Refuting ISIS: A rebuttal of its religious and ideological foundations (Arabic copy) Foreword, Lights of Yearning: In Praise of the Most Praised ﷺ, by Walid Lounès Bouzerar, Dar al-Habib, 2015 Al-Anwar Al-Muhammadiyyah: The Prophetic Lights Refuting ISIS, Second Edition, Sacred Knowledge, 2016 Inqādh Al-Ummah إنقاذ الأمة the Arabic of Refuting ISIS, Second Edition The Manners Of Debate (Arabic Edition) (Arabic) Paperback – 25 April 2016’'Judgement of Hadith Narrators (Arabic Edition) Paperback – 26 June 2016 In the Shade of the Levant, Arabic edition, Publisher Sacred Knowledge Seeking Knowledge: The Principles & Etiquette (Arabic), Sacred Knowledge 2016Celebrating Love and Theology: Refutation of