{{Infobox religious biography | religion = Islam | honorific_prefix = | name = Sulaymān al-ʿAlwān | alt = a headshot of Sulaymān bin Nāṣir bin ʿAbdillāh al-ʿAlwān wearing a red and white checked keffiyeh | image = الشيخ_سليمان_العلوان.jpg | caption = Sulaymān bin Nāṣir bin ʿAbdillāh al-ʿAlwān | birth_name = Sulaymān ibn Nāṣir al-ʿAlwān | birth_date = 1969 | birth_place = Buraidah, Saudi Arabia | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | other_names = Abū ʿAbd Allāh | nationality = Saudi Arabian | era = Modern | region = Middle East | denomination = Sunni | jurisprudence = Hanbali | creed = Athari | movement = Salafism, Shuaybiyya, [[Jahmīyyah] | main_interests = Hadith, politics | notable_ideas = | notable_works = | alma_mater = | Sufi_order = | disciple_of = Al-Shu'aybi | awards = World Record for being an Adhir | influences = Ibn Taymiyya, Al-Shu'aybi, Al-Uthaymin, Dawud Ibn Jirjis | influenced = Abdullah al-Muhaysini | module = | website = }} Sulaymān al-ʿAlwān (Arabic: سليمان بن ناصر بن عبد الله العلوان, Sulaymān bin Nāṣir bin ʿAbdillāh al-ʿAlwān, born 1969) is a Saudi islamic scholar and jihadist preacher.
[2][3] In 2000, he issued a fatwa endorsing the use of suicide bombings against Israel, and in 2001 he supported the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan by the Taliban.
[4] In January 2002, Alwan and two other radical Saudi clerics, Hamoud al-Aqla al-Shuebi and Ali al-Khudair, wrote a letter to Taliban leader Mullah Omar praising him and referred to him as the Commander of the faithful.
On 31 March 2003, 11 days after the start of the Iraq War, al-Alwan published an open letter in which he called on the Iraqi people to fight the American soldiers and use suicide bombings against them.
[8] In October 2013, Alwan was sentenced to a 15-year prison term; charges included questioning the legitimacy of the country's rulers.