Tariq Abdelhaleem طارق عبد الحليم is an Egyptian Islamist cleric residing in Canada in Ontario's city of Mississauga and head of the Dar al-Arqam institution there. Tariq Abdelhaleem, along with Abu Qatada, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, and Hani al-Sibai was praised by Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al-Qaeda. He was born on 1 September 1948 in the al-Jami' ul-Isma'ili area of Cairo. His father was a former head of Tax cassation (appeals) and a lawyer named Abdul Hafeedh Ahmad from a family of Upper Egypt origins in Qena Governorate called the family of Abdelhaleem. His maternal great grandfather was a native of the Beheira Governorate called Abdul Majeed Saleem عبد المجيد سليم, who was a Shaykh al-Islām. His maternal grandfather was Abdul Azeez al Bishri (عبد العزيز البشري), a memorizer of Hadith, and his mother was Zaynab Abdul Azeez Saleem al-Bishri. Tariq is the father of Shareef Abdelhaleem. Al-Bishri was commented on by Muhammad Kurd Ali who described him Tariq tweeted that his great grandfather of his father was born in the Qena Governorate in Farshout in 1709 in Upper Egypt, and was an Amazigh Hawaraah tribal Shaikh called (Shaikh al Arab Hamaam) Shaikh Hamaam ibn Yusuf. In 1769 he died. In 1767, his father Yusuf died. His tribe ruled from Aswan to Mena in the Saeed region during the reign of Ali Bey al Kabir. Tariq that said that genealogy is important and recounted that "Mustafa al Mukhtar" (Muhammad)'s genealogy was known by Abu Bakr al-Siddiq. Tariq stressed genealogy and knowledge of one's origins and denounced those who did not know. Tariq cited the example of Muhammad who cited his genealogy as proof that he did not lie. Tariq then praised Hudhaifa Azzam and his genealogy and said that genealogy shows nobility. Tariq then praised the origins and genealogy of Al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri. Tariq cited a quote "The ignorant does not known his own station, so how can he know the station of others" by Al-Dhahabi.