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Mohammed Amin al-Husseini
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in Mandatory Palestine. He was the scion of the al-Husayni family of Jerusalemite Arab nobles, who trace their origins to the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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politics · Palestinian Arab nationalist (1897–1974) · politician · mufti · also Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, Amin al-Husseini, Muḥammad Amīn al- Husainī, al-Husseini
Born 1 January 1895 · Died 4 July 1974 · Q164745
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2021· 1 entry
Told Haaretz that he resisted "wild attacks" in refusing to display the photograph of al-Husseini meeting Hitler
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2015· 1 entry
That Husseini convinced Hitler to go through with the Holocaust during this meeting has been discredited, with the mass killings of Jews by SS mobile killing units in fact already underway by the time Hitler met him
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1989· 1 entry
In Damascus with further details covering events post-1936
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1975· 1 entry
In Arabic, republished in Syria as a whole book in 1999
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1974· 1 entry
Died 1974-07-04.
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1967· 1 entry
Receiving al-Husseini as an honoured guest in his Jerusalem royal residence after uprooting the PLO from Jordan
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1959· 1 entry
By Nasser himself, who envisaged a United Arab Republic embracing Syria, Egypt and Palestine
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1947· 2 entries
As representatives of the Palestinian Arab population) had made common cause during World War II in their opposition to the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine
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Simon Wiesenthal alleged that Eichmann had accompanied Husseini on an inspection tour of both Auschwitz and Majdanek, and that al-Husseini had praised the hardest workers at the crematoria
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1945· 1 entry
Al-Husseini was the only specific individual singled out to be put on trial
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1944· 1 entry
“Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you.”
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1941· 1 entry
Assured Hitler that "The Arabs were Germany's natural friends because they had the same enemies
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1937· 3 entries
Did not remove him from the post of mufti of Jerusalem
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Evading an arrest warrant for aligning himself against British rule as leader of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, he fled and took refuge in Lebanon and afterwards Iraq
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With his superior Hagen by a representative of the Haganah, Feival Polkes, Polkes supported German foreign policy in the Near East and offered to work for them in intelligence
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1936· 1 entry
However, they achieved a measure of concerted policy when all the Palestinian Arab groups joined to create a permanent executive organ known as the Arab Higher Committee under al-Husseini's chairmanship
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1933· 2 entries
According to Alami, al-Husseini expressed interest in Ben Gurion's proposal of a Jewish-Palestine as part of a larger Arab federation
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Within weeks of Hitler's rise to power in Germany, the German Consul-General in Jerusalem for Palestine, Heinrich Wolff, an open supporter of Zionism, sent a telegram to Berlin reporting al-Husseini's belief that Palesti
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1931· 2 entries
By Musa Kazim al-Husayni's son, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni and recruited from the Palestinian Arab Boy Scout movement, called the "Holy Struggle" (al-jihad al-muqaddas)
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Al-Husseini founded the World Islamic Congress, on which he was to serve as president
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1930· 1 entry
"is appointed by His Majesty's Government and governs the country through an autocratic system in which the population has no say"
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1922· 1 entry
Al-Husseini was elected president of the Supreme Muslim Council which had been created by Samuel in 1921
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1921· 1 entry
Herbert Samuel, the British High Commissioner appointed him Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a position he used to promote Islam while rallying a non-confessional Arab nationalism against Zionism
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1919· 1 entry
Al-Husseini attended the Pan-Syrian Congress held in Damascus where he supported Emir Faisal for King of Syria
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1914· 1 entry
Al-Husseini received a commission in the Ottoman Army as an artillery officer and was assigned to the Forty-Seventh Brigade stationed in and around the city of İzmir
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1913· 1 entry
Approximately at the age of 16, al-Husseini accompanied his mother Zainab to Mecca and received the honorary title of Hajji
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1912· 2 entries
Studied Islamic law briefly at Al-Azhar University in Cairo and at the Dar al-Da'wa wa-l-Irshad, under Rashid Rida, a salafi scholar, who was to remain Amin's mentor till his death in 1935
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Pursued Salafist religious studies in Cairo
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1897· 1 entry
Received education in Islamic, Ottoman, and Catholic schools
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1895· 1 entry
Born 1895-01-01.
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