The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem is the Sunni Muslim cleric in charge of Jerusalem's Islamic holy places, including Al-Aqsa. The position was created by the...
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A Grand Mufti (also called Chief Mufti, State Mufti and Supreme Mufti) is a title for the leading Islamic jurist of a country, typically Sunni, who may...
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Muhammad Ahmad Hussein (category Grand Muftis of Jerusalem)
حسين; born 1966) is the incumbent Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He was appointed in July 2006 by Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian National Authority...
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Al-Husayni family (category Families from Jerusalem)
Mayor and Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Musa al-Husayni was mayor of Jerusalem, 1918–1920. Mohammed Tahir al-Husayni was Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, 1860s-1908...
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Ekrima Sa'id Sabri (category Grand Muftis of Jerusalem)
former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine from October 1994 to July 2006. He was appointed by Yasser Arafat. Mahmoud Abbas removed Sabri as mufti in July...
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Hussam ad-Din Jarallah (category Grand Muftis of Jerusalem)
was a Sunni Muslim leader of the Palestinian people during the British Mandate of Palestine and was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem from 1948 until his death...
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Kamil al-Husayni (category Grand Muftis of Jerusalem)
first “Grand Mufti of Jerusalem“, a title they had copied from the Grand Mufti of Egypt. The British referred to him as “the representative of Islam in...
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List of Islamic muftis and territorial muftiates. The mufti is the official head of the muftiate. The Grand Mufti is the official head of a board of regional...
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Amin al-Husseini (redirect from Hitler's Mufti)
1921, Herbert Samuel, the British High Commissioner appointed him Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a position he used to promote Islam while rallying a non-confessional...
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Sulaiman Ja'abari (category Grand Muftis of Jerusalem)
Sunni Muslim religious leader of the Palestinian people and the fifth Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He became Grand Mufti in 1993 until his death in 1994...
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Mohammed Tahir al-Husayni (category Grand Muftis of Jerusalem)
British mandated period of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Born in Jerusalem to the al-Husayni family, Tahir was appointed the Qadi of Jerusalem in the 1860s by officials...
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responsibility of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, appointed by the government of the State of Palestine. When Israel recaptured the eastern half of Jerusalem in 1967...
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Saad al-Alami (category Grand Muftis of Jerusalem)
leader of the Palestinian people and the fourth Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, in office from 1952 until his death. Al-Alami was born in Jerusalem in 1911...
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Al-Aqsa Mosque (redirect from Mosque of Al-Aqsa)
the other hand, is the responsibility of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, appointed by the government of the State of Palestine. After the 1969 arson attack...
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François Genoud (category Abwehr personnel of World War II)
general Karl Wolff, Nazi Economy Minister Hjalmar Schacht, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini and Palestinian militant Wadie Haddad. Genoud...
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The Islamization of Jerusalem refers to the process through which Jerusalem and its Old City acquired an Islamic character and, eventually, a significant...
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York Times noted that the film covered how Hitler promised the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem that he would "remove the Jews from Palestine". The film described...
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Jerusalem mark the first large-scale skirmish of the Arab–Israeli conflict. 1921: Hajj Mohammad Amin al-Husayni is appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem...
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role of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. The idea was borrowed from that of the Grand Mufti of Egypt. The British also combined the traditional roles of mufti and...
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Sufi Abdul Hamid (category Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in the United States)
antisemitic groups and individuals such as Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and openly associated with the German-American Bund, a pro-Nazi...
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World Islamic Congress (category History of Palestine (region))
convened in Jerusalem in December 1931 at the behest of Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and Maulana Shaukat Ali, leader of the Indian...
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Musa Hadeib (category Muslim supporters of Israel)
Zionist Executive claimed that the followers of Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the leader of the Supreme Muslim Council, were responsible...
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creation of Pakistan in 1947. Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who presided over the Conference, was elected President of the Congress...
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Mandatory Palestine (redirect from Demographics of Mandatory Palestine)
al-Husseini to become Grand Mufti, although he was young and had received the fewest votes from Jerusalem's Islamic leaders. One of the mufti's rivals, Raghib...
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The city of Jerusalem is sacred to many religious traditions, including the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam which consider it a...
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Arab Higher Committee (category Politics of Mandatory Palestine)
were: Amin al-Husayni, president – member of the al-Husayni clan, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and president of the Supreme Muslim Council until his dismissal...
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Axis powers (redirect from Axis states of World War II)
country. On 9 May 1941, Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who was an associate of Rashid Ali and in asylum in Iraq, declared Jihad against...
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Free Arabian Legion (category Foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht)
Contact was established with the Axis powers with the help of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini, who had been living in Iraq since he had...
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Schutzstaffel (category Military of Nazi Germany)
government rather than ideological agreement with the SS. The exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini was made an SS-Gruppenführer by Himmler in May...
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Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world (category Foreign relations of Nazi Germany)
impression of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem as I have. He considers him to be a descendant of the crusaders, and he also looks like one ... This Grand Mufti makes...
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