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Stating that he was "hungry for answers to the larger philosophical questions," Al-Timimi returned to Saudi Arabia in 1987, where he studied for a year at the [[Islamic University of Madinah]] and became a student of [[Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz|Abdul-Aziz bin Baz]].<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> [[Michael Sells]] who has investigated Al-Timimi's belief system has written, "It is Bin Baz’s understanding of Islam, in fact, that ... guides central assumptions within Timimi’s speeches." He also stated, "Were we to name the militant interpretation ... found in Timimi’s speech, then, we might call it Bin Bazism."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sells |first=Michael |date=December 2006 |title=War as Worship, Worship as War |url=https://www.islamicpluralism.org/documents/367.pdf |journal=The Religion and Culture Web Forum |pages=12, 17 |access-date=January 1, 2024}}</ref>
Al-Timimi also became influenced by [[Islamist]] thinkers like [[Sayyid Qutb]], [[Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Khaliq]], [[Safar Al-Hawali]] and [[Muhammad Surur]].<ref name="Hitchens">Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, ''Salafism in America: History, Evolution, Radicalization'', October 2018, p. 67. Report for the George Washington University Program on Extremism. [https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/Salafism%20in%20America.pdf Link].</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite book|last=Bowen|first=Innes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XhcoBgAAQBAJ|title=Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent: Inside British Islam|date=2014-08-15|publisher=Hurst|isbn=9781849045308}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite book |last=Marquardt |first=Erich |url=https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/legal-documents/ACLURM000540.pdf |title=Terrorism & Political Islam Origins, Ideologies, and Methods: A Counterterrorism Textbook |last2=Heffelfinger |first2=Christopher |edition=2nd |pages=265, 390}}</ref> Following his April 2005 conviction, an editorial about Al-Timimi's life appeared in the Saudi newspaper [[Al Madina (newspaper)|Al Madina]]. It described his "personality as one that combines eloquence, steadfastness in times of adversity, and unique opinions from one
At his parents' urging, Al-Timimi returned to the United States after a year of study and earned a second undergraduate degree in computer science from the [[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]]. He later earned a Ph.D. in [[computational biology]] from [[George Mason University]] in 2004, after defending his [[Thesis|doctoral thesis]] titled "Chaos and Complexity in Cancer."<ref name=":4" /> His doctoral thesis reflected, in large part, the influence of the ideas of [[Harold J. Morowitz|Harold Morowitz]], one of his professors, on his thinking.
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