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The Grand Mufti: Haj Amin al-Hussaini, Founder of the Palestinian National Movement
Author(s): Z Elpeleg (Author), Shmuel Himelstein (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 1993
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 0714634328
- ISBN-13: 9780714634326
Book Description
A former military governor of Arab areas under Israeli occupation chronicles the life and career of Hussaini (1893-1974), from his early days in Jerusalem, through his Palestinian nationalist work during the 1920s and 1930s, his eclipse after 1948, and his continuing influence on the Palestinian movement.
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In his balanced and unemotional account of the Mufti’s long life, Zvi Elpeleg concludes that Haj Amin has not yet received his deserved place in Arab historiography: ‘As I see it, he is the Weizmann, the Ben-Gurion, even the Herzl, of the Palestinian national movement.
About the Author
Zvi Elpeleg
