Rafiq al-Tamimi
Rafiq al-Tamimi | |
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| Member of Central Committee of al-Fatat | |
| In office 1918–1919 | |
| Chairman of al-Najjada | |
| In office 1945–1947 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1889 Arab nationalist political activist |
| Profession | Administrative leader and educator |
| Committees | Arab Higher Committee |
Muhammad Rafiq al-Tamimi (
Palestinian Arab educator and political figure in the 20th century. He was appointed to the Arab Higher Committee in 1945 and was the chairman of the Palestinian Arab paramilitary scout movement, al-Najjada
(1945–47).
Early life
Al-Tamimi was born in Nablus to a landowning family in 1889. He attended elementary and secondary school in the city and then at the Marjan Preparatory School in Istanbul, Turkey. Because of his well-rated performance at Marjan, he entered and won an academic contest. He enrolled at the Mulkiyya College in Istanbul as a result. He was consequently recognized by the Ottoman Education Ministry and given a grant to learn at the Sorbonne in Paris. There he received a degree in literature and education.[2]
Political career
Al-Tamimi served in the local administration of the
Jabal Nablus.[4]
He was elected to the central committee of al-Fatat in December 1918. In July 1919, following the
Greater Syria, claiming it would only be a "disguised form of imperialist penetration."[5]
In the early 1940s, he joined the
Bloudan Conference of 1947, he was reappointed to the reformed AHC by Jamal al-Husayni on January 5, 1947.[8] He was part of the Palestinian delegation to the Arab League in February 1948 aimed at obtaining military, political, and moral support for the Palestinian cause from the Arab states.[9]
References
Bibliography
- Abu-Ghazaleh, Adnan (1973), Arab cultural nationalism in Palestine during the British Mandate, Volume 34, Institute of Palestine Studies
- ISBN 0-520-20370-4
- Khalaf, Issa (1991), Politics in Palestine: Arab factionalism and social disintegration, 1939-1948, SUNY Press, ISBN 0-7914-0708-X
- Levenberg, Haim (1993), Military Preparations of the Arab Community in Palestine, 1945-1948, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-7146-3439-5
- Muslih, Muhammad Y. (1989), The Origins of Palestinian Nationalism, Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0-231-06509-2