Encyclopedia of Islam

Husayni, Muhammad Amin al-

  

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When the United Nations announced its parti-

tion plan for Palestine in 1947, al-Husayni, still in 

exile, rejected it and called for Muslims to rise up 

in support of the Palestinians and against a Zion-

ist state in the Muslim holy land. In the wake of 

the defeat of the Palestinians, al-Husayni spent 

the rest of his life traveling throughout Muslim-

majority lands speaking on behalf of the Palestin-

ian nationalist cause and denouncing the creation 

of i

srael

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Nancy L. Stockdale

Further reading: William L. Cleveland, A History of the 

Modern Middle East (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 

2000); Philip Mattar, The Mufti of Jerusalem: Al-Hajj 

Amin al-Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement

(New York: Columbia University Press, 1992).