Ali Al-Tamimi (also Ali Al-Timimi; born December 14, 1963 in Washington, DC) is a former Fairfax County resident, biologist, and Islamic teacher who was subsequently convicted of inciting terrorism in connection with the Virginia Jihad Network and sentenced to life imprisonment.Being influenced by radical Islamist thinkers like Sayyid Qutb, Safar Al-Hawali and Muhammad Surur, he has been described as "arguably the first American born activist Salafi preacher."