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Al-Hajj Muhammad Amin al-Husayn (born 1895 or 1897, died 4 July 1974) is a Palestinian nationalist and political leader of the Muslim movement in the Mandate of Palestine, a large mufti of Jerusalem from 1921 to 1948. He led to the outbreak of anti-Jewish riots in 1936-1939. Fleeing from arrest, he fled to exile where he continued his anti-Jewish activities.

Youth Muhammad Amin al-Hussein was born in Jerusalem, then part of the Ottoman Empire (now Israel). He was the son of the mufti city of Mohammed Tahir al-Husayn, who was then a fierce opponent of Zionism. The Husayn clan was one of the wealthiest families in southern Palestine, and possessed lands around Jerusalem. The thirteen members of the clan were the mayors of Jerusalem in the years 1864-1920. Brother Amin, Kamil al-Husayn was a great mufti of Jerusalem. Young Amin graduated from Islamic school in Jerusalem, studying Turkish at French governmental schools, French Catholic missionaries and Albert Antébi (director of the Alliance Israeli Universelle - he was a counterpart of the Zionist movement). He then went to the University of Al-Azhar in Cairo, where he studied Islamic law under Rashid Rida (he was an Amin manor to his death in 1935). In 1913 he and his mother took part in a pilgrimage (Hajj) to Mecca. Then he went to Istanbul to study. Military career

With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Amin joined the Turkish army. Served as artillery officer in the 48th Brigade stationed in the vicinity of the city of Izmir. In November 1916 he received three months of leave for treatment. He returned to his native Jerusalem, which in the meantime occupied the British. He joined the Arab soldiers of Fayal I, fighting the Turks to liberate Palestine. He then worked for the British administration in Jerusalem and Damascus for a short time. Early political activity

In 1919, Amin al-Husayn took part in the Pan-Syrian Congress held in Damascus. He supported the candidacy of Faisal I on the King of Great Syria. In the same year al-Hussein established a pro-Syrian club called "Arab Club" (An-Nadi Al-Arabi) in Jerusalem. He competed with another important Palestinian clan, Ourasabi, who created a similar club called "Literary Club" (Al-Muntada al-Adabi). The rivalry was influenced by the public opinion of the Arab community in Palestine. At the same time, he began writing articles for the Arab newspaper "South Syria" (Arabic: سوريا الجنوبية, Suriyam al-Jubaubya), which was published in Jerusalem in September 1919. During the annual Nabi Musa procession in Jerusalem, in April 1920, violent Arab protests erupted against the implementation of the British Balfour Declaration, which was a promise to establish a "Jewish national seat" in Palestine. In the riots of Nebi Musa destroyed many Jewish shops and houses in the city. The British mandate report has blamed the outbreak of riots on both sides of the conflict in Mandate Palestine. Amin al-Hussein was accused of inducing Arabs to "flame speak" for riots. Prior to the military court judgment, he escaped with many other Arab nationalists. The British court sentenced him to nine years in prison.

After the April riots in Jerusalem, there was a serious split between the Arab clans of Hussein and Ourashibi. The British military governor of Jerusalem, Colonel Storrs, dismissed Musa Kazima as the mayor of Jerusalem and appointed Raghiba an -Sasashibi as his replacement. This deepened the sense of harm done to the Hussein's clan. Amin, staying in exile in Transjorda

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