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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The Grand Mufti (also called Chief Mufti, State Mufti and Supreme Mufti) is the head of regional muftis, Islamic jurisconsults, of a state. The office...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Eberhard von Stohrer (category Ambassadors of Germany to Spain)
son of an Army General from Württemberg, he studied at Leipzig University, receiving a Doctor of Law degree. He also studied at the University of Strasbourg...
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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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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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Hashim al-Atassi (category Speakers of the People's Assembly of Syria)
of Beirut, and through the years, up to 1918, served as Governor of Homs, Hama, Baalbek, Anatolia, and Jaffa, which included the then-small suburb of...
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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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significant part of the book. They continue by describing how the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, an influential Arab leader and Nazi collaborator...
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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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Sufi Abdul Hamid (category Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in the United States)
groups and individuals such as Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and an ally of the German-American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization, and...
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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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Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world (category Foreign relations of Nazi Germany)
and Muslim leaders, most notably the exiled Palestinian leader, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini. Another foundation was the Nazi hostility towards...
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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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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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al-Qurʼān, former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, comments that "such book does not exist even in the Arab world". This 6 volume work of Mumtaz Ali...
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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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Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh (category Iraqi people of Lebanese descent)
historical, geographical and national unity of the Arab nation. Having admired the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, he worked both with...
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As'ad Shukeiri (category Grand Muftis of Jerusalem)
political leader and mayor of Acre, and the Ottoman-appointed Qadi from 1914 to 1918. Kamil al-Husayni was the Hanafi Mufti at the time and considered...
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Ronald Storrs (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
President of the Society. In 1918, Storrs created the position of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem as the Sunni Muslim cleric in charge of Jerusalem's Islamic holy...
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