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Amin al-Husseini
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For us Muslims, it is unworthy to utter the word Islam in the same breath with Judaism since Islam stands high over its perfidious adversary.
Amin al-Husseini
Palestinian Arab nationalist (1897–1974)
- Fame61.8
- Momentum15.0
- Turkey rank#187
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- Fame61.8
- Momentum15.0
- Turkey rank#187
- Politicians rank#140
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Lived 1895–1974, aged 79Turkey
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Updated 2026-06-08
A Jerusalem-born religious and political leader who opposed Zionism from the 1920s onward, then spent World War II in Nazi Germany seeking Axis support for Arab independence. His wartime collaboration remains a flashpoint in arguments over Palestinian nationalism and its relationship to antisemitism.
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Born around 1897 into a noble Jerusalemite family, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini studied in Islamic and Catholic schools before serving in the Ottoman army during World War I. After briefly supporting the Arab Kingdom of Syria, he returned to Jerusalem and led the 1920 Nebi Musa riots against Zionism, earning a prison sentence the British soon pardoned. In 1921 the British appointed him Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a new role he used to rally Arab opposition to Jewish settlement while remaining a British ally through the mid-1930s. He fled Palestine in 1937 after leading the Arab revolt, moving throu…
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Amin al-Husseini
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The Arabs have a particular understanding for introducing forceful measures against Jews in Germany and for their expulsion from the country.
Amin al-Husseini
saidundated
The Jewish struggle against Arabs is nothing new for us, except that as time passed, the location of the battlefield changed.
— Islam and Judaism
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