• Thumbnail for Grand Mufti of Jerusalem
    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...
    10 KB (1,167 words) - 15:20, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grand Mufti
    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...
    37 KB (1,532 words) - 15:07, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Muhammad Ahmad Hussein
    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...
    8 KB (707 words) - 21:15, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hussam ad-Din Jarallah
    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...
    4 KB (316 words) - 01:11, 22 November 2024
  • 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...
    49 KB (1,414 words) - 18:39, 6 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al-Husayni family
    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...
    14 KB (1,619 words) - 10:40, 20 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ekrima Sa'id Sabri
    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...
    5 KB (542 words) - 23:58, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amin al-Husseini
    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...
    218 KB (27,993 words) - 09:59, 2 December 2024
  • 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...
    4 KB (339 words) - 09:19, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Islamic leadership in Jerusalem
    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...
    13 KB (1,958 words) - 15:54, 3 February 2024
  • 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...
    2 KB (188 words) - 23:20, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kamil al-Husayni
    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...
    5 KB (476 words) - 17:53, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eberhard von Stohrer
    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...
    6 KB (728 words) - 18:43, 25 October 2024
  • 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...
    12 KB (1,334 words) - 16:56, 14 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jerusalem Waqf
    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...
    14 KB (1,669 words) - 20:57, 27 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Islamization of Jerusalem
    The Islamization of Jerusalem refers to the process through which Jerusalem and its Old City acquired an Islamic character and, eventually, a significant...
    38 KB (4,431 words) - 05:58, 19 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
    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...
    13 KB (1,412 words) - 09:35, 30 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Religious significance of Jerusalem
    The city of Jerusalem is sacred to many religious traditions, including the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam which consider it a...
    23 KB (2,972 words) - 14:44, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hashim al-Atassi
    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...
    21 KB (2,266 words) - 22:59, 20 December 2024
  • 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...
    9 KB (1,222 words) - 19:23, 23 June 2024
  • 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...
    3 KB (173 words) - 21:23, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world
    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...
    230 KB (28,799 words) - 19:22, 22 December 2024
  • 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...
    4 KB (321 words) - 21:58, 24 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arab Higher Committee
    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...
    27 KB (3,648 words) - 20:03, 21 October 2024
  • 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...
    3 KB (434 words) - 23:23, 29 July 2023
  • 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...
    6 KB (539 words) - 17:46, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al-Aqsa Mosque
    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...
    117 KB (14,158 words) - 02:35, 26 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh
    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...
    5 KB (498 words) - 20:45, 2 November 2024
  • inviting the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Muhammad Ahmad Hussein to speak): "Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs is a war of religion and faith...
    67 KB (7,102 words) - 19:18, 20 November 2024
  • The organization was highly influenced by the exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the head of Arab Higher Committee (dissolved by the British authorities...
    6 KB (695 words) - 14:55, 4 November 2024