Muhammad bin Jamil Zeno (Arabic: محمد بن جمیل زینو; 1925 – October 8, 2010) is an imam, teacher, scholar and an author.
He became a Sheikh and joined the House of Teachers in Aleppo where he taught for 29 years before leaving to teach in a madrasah in the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
Zeno (as Zainu) features heavily in the 2005 report 'Saudi Publications On Hate Ideology Invade American Mosques',[1] by Freedom House, the New York-based human rights organization.
Zeno featured heavily a study by the neoconservative Centre for Social Cohesion, 'Hate on the State: How British libraries encourage Islamic extremism'[3] by James Brandon and Douglas Murray, in which he has been described as "One of the most virulent Wahhabi clerics whose books are stocked in the Tower Hamlets libraries."
[4] Zeno was also criticised for writing that "Singing is a prelude to adultery…handclapping and whistling are abominable acts which one should abandon" and "Dolls made in foreign countries should not be bought and given to children.