Mohammed Tahir al-Husayni

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Mohammed Tahir al-Husayni
محمد طاهر مصطفى طاهر الحسيني
Title
Maturidi
Muslim leader
Period in office1860s – 1908
PredecessorMustafa Tahir al-Husayni
SuccessorKamil al-Husayni

Mohammed Tahir Mustafa Tahir al-Husayni (alternatively transliterated al-Husseini) (

Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, both of whom held the equivalent position in the British mandated period of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem
.

Born in Jerusalem to the

Kamil
became the Mufti of Jerusalem and later (1918) the Grand Mufti.

Mohammed Tahir al-Husayni was one of the earliest critics of Zionism, in the 1880s and 1890s, and he tried several times to prevent Jewish immigrants from purchasing lands in the Mutasarrifiyya of Jerusalem.[1] In 1897, a commission headed by the Mufti managed to halt Jewish immigration for the next few years. When the Administrative Council received a report about Jewish immigration in September 1899, Mufti Husayni "proposed that the new arrivals be terrorised prior to the expulsion of all foreign Jews established in Palestine since 1891." But his extreme proposal was turned down by the Mutasarrif in favor of a policy which allowed Jewish immigration as long as the immigrants assimilated as Ottoman citizens.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Beška, Emanuel: Responses of Prominent Arabs Towards Zionist Aspirations and Colonization Prior to 1908. In Asian and African Studies, 16, 1, 2007. [1]
  2. ISBN 0-520-02466-4
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