Ata Abu Rashta

Ata Abu Rashta (Sheikh Abu Yasin Ata bin Khalil bin Ahmad bin Abdul Qadir al-Khatib Abu Rashta) was born into an observant Islamic family in the village of Ra'na in Mandate Palestine. His family was expelled from Ra'na in 1948 and moved to a refugee camp near Hebron, where he completed elementary and middle school. ==Politics==

Rashta joined Hizb ut-Tahrir in the mid-1950s and worked closely with Taqiuddin an-Nabhani, founder of the party, and Abdul Qadeem Zallum who succeeded him after an-Nabhani's death in 1977. In the 1980s, Abu Rashta he was a leading member of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Jordan and was appointed its first official spokesperson. Abu Rashta came to prominence in Jordan during the Persian Gulf War when he convened press conferences, lectures and debates at public venues throughout the country. He debated the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait at the Jerusalem Mosque in Amman at which he delivered a lecture entitled The Neo-Crusader Assault on the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf. He was regularly detained by the Jordanian authorities. In a 1994 interview, Ata Abu Rashta said: Rashta became the global leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir on 13 April 2003, following the death of Abdul Qadeem Zallum. Since assuming this position, Rashta launched his own website and has spoken at conferences in Indonesia, Pakistan, Yemen and the UK. ==Published works==

• Tayseer fi usool at-tafseer surah al-baqarah (2007) • Economic crises - the reality and the perspective of Islam • Tayseer al Wusool min al-Usool ==References==