Birth: NULL/NULL/1887 Death:NULL/NULL/1960
Born in Al-Izzariyyia (Bethany) in 1887; received his secondary schooling in Jerusalem; graduated from Al-Azhar University in Cairo in 1910; received further education at the University of Istanbul in 1911 and at the Arab College in Jerusalem; was versed in international law and later taught in Jerusalem at Rawdat Al-Maaref College, at Frère College, and at the Jewish Teachers High School; was Chief Administrator at the High Court in Jerusalem, and Imam at Al-Haram Ash-Sharif; became a highly respected religious scholar in Palestine and in the larger Arab and Islamic World; was one of the leaders in the national movement fighting British occupation policies in Palestine, who opposed and prevented the selling of land to Zionist settlers; was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and served for a short period as Sec.-Gen. of the movement in Palestine; was forced into hiding in 1936, after the British Mandate authorities issued a warrant for his arrest for political activism; went into exile in 1937, traveling first to Lebanon and later to Iraq, Iran and Syria under assumed names; returned to Palestine in 1943 clandestinely and left again in 1946 to Egypt; was allowed to return to Jerusalem in 1953 by King Abdullah I of Jordan, after he declared not to get involved in politics; in 1955/56, was accused of being the chief instigator of the Palestinian Jericho Revolt, whose aim was better living conditions for the refugees; wrote at length about the early conditions of Palestinian refugees in Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq in his diaries, which, however, remain unpublished; died in 1960.
