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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    the other hand, is the responsibility of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, appointed by the government of the State of Palestine. In 2017, Jordan enlarged the...
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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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  • 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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  • 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 terrorist Wadie Haddad. Genoud...
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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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    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 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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    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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  • 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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    al-Husseini to become Grand Mufti, although he was young and had received the fewest votes from Jerusalem's Islamic leaders. One of the mufti's rivals, Raghib...
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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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  • 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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    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 (see subsection in "antisemitism in Islam")....
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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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  • charge. With the recruiting help of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar, mostly formed...
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    the instigators of the crime. Jerusalem sources added that Col. el-Tell had been in close contact with the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husayni...
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  • providers of "spiritual sustenance". In this context, Hitler's connection to Amin al-Husseini, who served as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem until 1937–...
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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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    Jerusalem mark the first large-scale skirmish of the Arab–Israeli conflict. 1921: Hajj Mohammad Amin al-Husayni is appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem...
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    the Millet religions. The British also introduced the office of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and appointed Haj Amin al-Husseini (1895–1974) to this position...
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