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| ABDUL
SHAFI , SHEIKH MUHEIDDIN (-1955) |
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Palestinian notable from Gaza; member of the 'ulama (religious
notables); served for the Ottomans until World War I; director of
waqf properties; Shari'a Court judge in Gaza; appointed member of
the Supreme Muslim Council for Gaza and Southern Palestine in 1930;
held this position until his death in Gaza in 1955. |
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| ABDUL
HADI, HAFEZ PASHA (1872- 1916) |
| Palestinian
notable; landowner from Nablus, Arrabeh and Jenin; supported the Decentralization
Party under Ottoman rule. |
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| ABDUL
HADI, SALIM AHMAD (1870-1915) |
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Member of the Decentralization Party which demanded autonomy for
the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire in 1912; belonged to the
1st Arab nationalist group, who were executed by the Ottomans in Damascus/Beirut
in 1915. |
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| ABU
MEDDIEN, SHEIKH FREIH (1871-1955) |
| Born in 1871; sheikh of
tribe from the Beer Sheva, Negev and Gaza area; head of the tribal
court in the Negev; took part in the Arab Revolt of 1916; first mayor
of Beer Sheva in 1922; took refuge in Gaza after the 1948 war; owned
much of the land; died in 1955. |
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| AL-ALAMI,
FAIDI (- 1924) |
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Mayor of Jerusalem 1906-09 and elected member of the "Administrative
Council" for the sanjaq of Jerusalem in the Ottoman parliament,
1914-18. |
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| DAJANI,
AREF
(PASHA) (1856-1930) |
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in Jerusalem in 1856; mayor of Jerusalem during World War I; in 1918
representative to the Administrative Committee of the Muslim-Christian
Association (MCA); became (January 1919) president of the MCA in Jerusalem
and through the senior status of the association's Jerusalem branch,
the MCA's overall president; under this presidency he initiated the
First Palestinian National Congress in Jerusalem (1919), demanding
an independent Palestinian government in federation with Syria and
rejecting Zionist political claims; elected vice president of the
congress' Executive Committee; one of the leaders of the movement
`Palestine for the Palestinians' which emerged in 1919; elected representative
to the 3rd (December 1920, Haifa) and 4th (May 1921, Jerusalem) Congress
of the Arab Executive Committee for Jerusalem; elected vice-president
at the 4th Congress; member of the Arab Executive until 1922; he and
Ragheb Nashashibi in the early 1920s led the opposition before splitting
in 1926/27. |
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| AL-HUSSEINI,
MOHAMMED TAHIR (1842-1908) |
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Born in 1842; Mufti of Jerusalem in the 1890s; headed a commission
set up in Jerusalem in 1897 by local notables to examine land sales
to Jews; under his presidency the commission succeeded and effectively
stopped land sales in the Jerusalem area for the next few years; died
in 1908; father of Haj Amin al-Husseini. |
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| AL-ISA,
ISA DAOUD (1878-1950) |
| Born in Jaffa; journalist
and poet; one of the pioneers of Arab Media in Palestine; co-founder
(with his cousin Joseph) the bi-weekly Arabic newspaper Filastin
in Jaffa in 1911; among those exiled during World War I; strongly
opposed to the Zionist movement; chief of the royal court in Damascus
during Amir Faisal's government where he used to stipulate that the
Damascus newspaper publishers devote half the columns of their papers
to the Palestinian cause before giving them their monthly allowance;
elected to the 7th Congress of the Arab Executive Committee in June
1928 for Jaffa; member of the oppositional National Defense Party
(mu'arada faction) in the Arab Executive Committee in 1932;
known as moderate politician; headed several Arab Christian-Orthodox
conferences in Palestine and TransJordan; His son Raja Al-Isa continued
to publish the newapaper; died 29 June 1950 in Beirut. |
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| AL-KHALIDI,
RUHI (1864-1913) |
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Born in 1864 in Jerusalem; writer and
essayist; held many administrative posi tions during the Ottoman
rule; studied Islamic sciences and philosophy in Paris; lecturer
at Sorbonne University, Paris; scholar and teacher at the Institute
for Foreign Languages in Paris; appointed Counsel General of the
Ottoman Empire in Bordeaux, France, from 1898 to 1908; elected in
Jerusalem to the Ottoman parliament in 1908 and 1912; representative
of Jerusalem in the Ottoman parliament from 1911 until his death;
in 1911 vicepresident of the parliament; lifelong active anti-Zionist;
wrote one of the earliest fully detailed manuscripts on Zionist
ideology and organization in Arabic; died on August 6, 1913 in Istanbul,
Turkey.
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| AL-KHALIDI,
SHEIKH KHALIL (1863-1941) |
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Born in Jerusalem (1863); well educated
in religion and religious law at Al-Azhar University, Cairo; appointed
Chief Justice of the Shari'a Court of Appeal in 1921 (for 14 years);
authority on calligraphy; author of several books; died in 1941
in Cairo.
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| AL-KHALIDI,
YUSSEF DIYA'UDDIN
(PASHA) (1829-1907) |
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Born in 1829 in Jerusalem; speaker
of the Ottoman Parliament in 1876; various administrative and consular
posts in the Ottoman Empire; lectured at the University of Vienna;
governor of a Kurdish province; wrote the first Kurdish-Arabic dictionary;
Ottoman vice consul at the Russian Black Sea port of Poti; elected
representative of Jerusalem in the newly established Ottoman parliament
in 1877 where he was an active member of the opposition; addressed
a letter to Zadok Kahn (Chief Rabbi of France) in 1899 pointing
out that Palestine could only be acquired by war; called on the
Jews to leave Palestine alone; appointed mayor of Jerusalem in 1899;
died in 1907.
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| AL-KHEIRI,
SHEIKH MUSTAFA (1897-1950) |
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Graduate of al-Azhar University, Cairo;
school teacher; religious notable; active member of the Arab nationalist
movement; responsible for the Sharia Court in Palestine; mayor of
Ramleh (early 1920s until the end of World War II);died in Ramallah
in 1950.
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| SHUQEIRI,
SHEIKH AS'AD
(1860-1940) |
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Born in Acre in 1860; graduate in religious law from al-Azhar
University, Cairo; supporter of the unity of the Ottoman Empire; elected
in Acre to the Ottoman parliament in 1908 and 1912; Acre District
Deputy from 1912-14; held many positions in the Ottoman religious
judiciary in Palestine; was librarian of the Imperial Library in Istanbul;
member of the Shari'a Inquiries Court at Istanbul; appointed mufti
of the fourth Ottoman Army in Syria - Palestine during World War I;
founder of the Liberal Party (Hizb al-Ahrar) in 1930; became
head of the Supreme Muslim Council during the British Mandate; was
an active member and leader of the pro-mu'arada faction and
became their pillar in the north of the country; father of Ahmad Shuqeiri
who later became the first head of the PLO. |
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