Tarek al-Zumar is an Egyptian Islamist politician and the secretary-general of the Building and Development Party.
The party has a non-political wing named al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya.
Al-Zumar was a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
His cousin is Abbud al-Zumar, who was imprisoned along with him.Al-Zumar was imprisoned in 1984 following the assassination of Anwar Sadat and was released during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.Al-Zumar and his cousin received a hero's welcome when they were released from prison before things turned.
On 14 July 2013 Egypt's prosecutor general Hisham Barakat ordered his assets to be frozen.