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	\| name = ʿAdnan ʿUqla<br />{{lang\|ar\|عدنان عقلة}}		\| name = ʿAdnan ʿUqla<br />{{lang\|ar\|عدنان عقلة}}
			\| office1 = Leader of the Fighting Vanguard
	\| office1 = Leader of the Fighting Vanguard		\| term_start1 = c. 1980
	\| term_start1 = c. 1980		\| term_end1 = April 1982
	\| term_end1 = April 1982		\| predecessor1 = Husni 'Abo
	\| predecessor1 = Husni 'Abo		\| successor1 =
	\| successor1 =		\| image = Adnan Uqla.jpg
	\| image = Adnan Uqla.jpg		\| caption = Uqla, sometime in the late 1970s
	\| caption = Uqla, sometime in the late 1970s		\| birth_date = {{birth date and age\|df=yes\|1951\|1\|5}}
	\| birth_date = {{birth date and age\|df=yes\|1951\|1\|5}}		\| birth_place = [[Haspin]], [[Quneitra Governorate\|Quneitra]], [[Syria]]
	\| birth_place = [[Haspin]], [[Quneitra Governorate\|Quneitra]], [[Syria]]		\| death_date = [[Presumption_of_death\| Presumed dead]] at 1982 (age 31)
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	\| Active =		\| commands = Fighting Vanguard
	\| commands = Fighting Vanguard		\| battles = [[Islamist uprising in Syria]]
	\| battles = [[Islamist uprising in Syria]]
	* [[Aleppo Artillery School massacre]]		* [[Aleppo Artillery School massacre]]
	* [[Siege of Aleppo (1980)\|Siege of Aleppo]]		* [[Siege of Aleppo (1980)\|Siege of Aleppo]]

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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = ʿAdnan ʿUqla<br />{{lang|ar|عدنان عقلة}}

| office1 = Leader of the Fighting Vanguard
| term_start1 = c. 1980
| term_end1 = April 1982
| predecessor1 = Husni 'Abo
| successor1 =
| image = Adnan Uqla.jpg
| caption = Uqla, sometime in the late 1970s
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1951|1|5}}
| birth_place = [[Haspin]], [[Quneitra Governorate|Quneitra]], [[Syria]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| allegiance =
| Active =
| commands = Fighting Vanguard
| battles = [[Islamist uprising in Syria]]
* [[Aleppo Artillery School massacre]]
* [[Siege of Aleppo (1980)|Siege of Aleppo]]
* [[Hama massacre]]
}}
'''ʿAdnan ʿUqla''' ({{lang-ar|عدنان عقلة}}) was the leader of the Fighting Vanguard; a [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] militant group connected to the [[Muslim Brotherhood of Syria|Muslim Brotherhood]] that participated in the failed [[Islamist uprising in Syria]]. He was noted as being particularly zealous, and of being the Vanguard's most charismatic and influential figure.<ref name="Carnegie"/>

==Early life and education==
Uqla, the son of a baker, was born into a middle-class family in [[Quneitra]]<ref name="Asad Seale p.325"/> in 1950.<ref name="Islam in Revolution p.115"/><ref name="85DAMASCUS1314"/> Uqla studied [[civil engineering]], and also served in the Syrian Army as an officer.<ref name="Islam in Revolution p.115">{{cite book |last=Dekmejian |first=R. Hrair |title=Islam in Revolution: Fundamentalism in the Arab World |url=https://archive.org/details/islaminrevolutio00dekm |url-access=registration |quote=Uqla. |year=1996 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |isbn=0-8156-2635-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/islaminrevolutio00dekm/page/115 115]}}</ref>

==Islamic uprising in Syria==
Uqla played a key role in the planning of the [[Aleppo Artillery School massacre]] in 1979.<ref name="Asad Seale p.325"/>

Uqla declared the independence of the Fighting Vanguard from the Muslim Brotherhood in January 1981, and claimed that he was continuing the fight against the Syrian government for the sake of God.<ref name="Khatib"/>

Uqla arrived in [[Hama]] anticipating the beginning of a general uprising against the Syrian government.<ref name="Khatib">{{cite book |last=Khatib |first=Line |title=Islamic Revivalism in Syria: The Rise and Fall of Ba'thist Secularism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QGhe5jU-l_oC&dq=uqla+1982&pg=PT148 |year=2012 |publisher=Routledge |isbn= 9781136661778}}</ref>

Despite having broken with the Muslim Brotherhood, Uqla was only officially dismissed from his position as leader of the Fighting Vanguard in April 1982, following the [[Hama Massacre]].<ref name="Islam in Revolution p.115"/> Many leaders of the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood fled to Iraq, and although the Iraqi government welcomed the political leaders, it refused to provide refuge to leaders of the Fighting Vanguard. According to some reports Uqla was arrested when trying to sneak back into Syria in 1983 or 1984, after being refused refuge in Iraq.<ref name="85DAMASCUS1314">{{cite web| last = Embassy Damascus | title =The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood| id={{WikiLeaks cable|85DAMASCUS1314}} | publisher =[[WikiLeaks]]| date =26 February 1985| url =https://wikileaks.org/cable/1985/02/85DAMASCUS1314.html | accessdate =29 July 2013|url-status=live }}</ref> Other sources cite him as being killed in 1982,<ref name="Asad Seale p.325">{{cite book |last1=Seale |first1=Patrick |last2=McConville |first2=Maureen |title=Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_rlPwgezoUC&dq=Uqla&pg=PA325 |year=1988 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn= 9780520066670|page=325}}</ref> or being caught by Syrian security forces in late 1982.<ref name="Carnegie">{{cite news |title=The Syrian Brotherhood's Armed Struggle |author=Raphaël Lefèvre |url=http://carnegie-mec.org/publications/?fa=50380 |newspaper=Carnegie Middle East Center |date=14 December 2012 |accessdate=28 July 2013}}</ref>

==References==
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