Tayyar.
Portrait of Murhaf Abu Qasra SY flag

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Murhaf Abu Qasra

مرهف أبو قصرة
Minister In government Unverified

Defense Minister of the Syrian transitional government. Former senior HTS military commander; central to the integration of armed factions post-December 2024.

Country
Syria
Party
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
Role
Minister

Inherited position

Until Murhaf Abu Qasra is scored from their own documents, this page shows their party's compass position. Where individuals visibly diverge from the party line, the gap is noted in the description above; quantifying it is what per-individual document scoring will add.

In Syria (via Hayat Tahrir al-Sham)
-10 -10 -5 -5 5 5 10 10 Libertarian · Statist Libertarian · Market Authority · Statist Authority · Market 1 parties 1 parties 1 parties ← Statist Market → Libertarian ↑ ↓ Authority Social ↕ Economic ↔ Syrian National Coalition (SY) · Economic +5.0, Social +1.0 SY Syrian National Coalition Ba'ath Party (Syria) (SY) · dissolved · Economic -6.5, Social -0.5 SY Ba'ath Party (Syria) Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (SY) · in government · Economic +2.5, Social -8.0 SY Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's spider profile
Economic → Market Social → Libertarian State & religion → Secular state Liberal democracy → Strong commitment West alignment → Pro-Western Regional stance → Stability/normalization Palestinian question → Pro-Palestinian rights Civil liberties → Expand Regime stance → pro-regime Pan-Arab vs particularist → pan-Arab Centralism vs federalism → federalist Traditionalism vs modernization → modernizing Gender equality → Gender equality Iran posture → Pro-Iran / aligned Press freedom → Free press Sectarian power-sharing → Post-sectarian / civic state
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham

Other politicians in Hayat Tahrir al-Sham

Politicians who share this party affiliation. Active in-government figures appear first; historical figures (dimmed) at the end. All affiliated →

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Murhaf Abu Qasra [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/murhaf-abu-qasra
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Murhaf Abu Qasra." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/murhaf-abu-qasra.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-murhaf-abu-qasra,
  title     = {{Murhaf Abu Qasra}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/murhaf-abu-qasra},
  urldate   = {2026-08-06},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-08-06},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.