The Supreme Muslim Council
Author | : Kupferschmidt |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2023-10-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004661484 |
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Author | : Kupferschmidt |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2023-10-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004661484 |
Author | : Nicholas E. Roberts |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1786731274 |
Concerns about the place of Islam in Palestinian politics are familiar to those studying the history of the modern Middle East. A significant but often misunderstood part of this history is the rise of Islamic opposition to the British in Mandate Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s. Across the empire, imperial officials wrestled with the question of how to rule over a Muslim-majority countries and came to see traditional Islamic institutions as essential for maintaining order. Islam under the Palestine Mandate tells the story of the search for a viable Islamic institution in Palestine and the subsequent invention of the Supreme Muslim Council. As a body with political recognition, institutional autonomy and financial power, the council was designed to be a counterweight to the growing popularity of nationalism among Palestinians. However, rather than extinguishing the revolutionary capacity of the colonized, it would become a significant opponent of British rule under its highly controversial president, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husayni. Making extensive use of primary sources from British and Israeli archives, this book offers an innovative account of the Supreme Muslim Council's place within a colonial project that aimed to control Palestinian religion and politics. Roberts argues against the standard view that the council's creation was an act of appeasement towards Muslim opinion, showing how British actions were guided by techniques of imperial administration used elsewhere in the empire.
Author | : Howard M. Federspiel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Palestine |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Uri M. Kupferschmidt |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004079298 |
Author | : Howard M. Federspiel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Philip Mattar |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780231064637 |
Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, the principal leader of Palestinian nationalism during the British mandate, was one of the modern Arab world's most controversial figures. He played a role in the 1992 Wailing Wall disturbance, took part in the Iraqi revolt of 1941, and was the target of British and Zionist assasins during World War II. Philip Mattar now offers the first full-length biography of this intriguing figure, weaving a fresh and objective revisionist account. Mattar clarifies al-Husayni's role in the politics of Palestine in the mandate era and the Palestinian national movement. He describes his rise to religious power as Mufti of Jerusalem and head of the Supreme Muslim Council. He also demarcates two major phases in al-Husayni's career. During his first, between 1917 and 1936, he was a cautious and pragmatic leader who, while opposing Zionism, cooperated with the British mandatory officials. The second phase, however, after 1936, was marked by militancy, frustration, and ultimately failure.
Author | : Yitzhak Reiter |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135220786 |
Yitzhak Reiter presents a picture of the role of Islam in mandatory Jerusalem through the resources of the Waqf. The prevalent image of institutionalized corruption within the Waqf system is not completely supported by the findings of the study.
Author | : Ela Greenberg |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2012-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0292749988 |
From the late nineteenth century onward, men and women throughout the Middle East discussed, debated, and negotiated the roles of young girls and women in producing modern nations. In Palestine, girls' education was pivotal to discussions about motherhood. Their education was seen as having the potential to transform the family so that it could meet both modern and nationalist expectations. Ela Greenberg offers the first study to examine the education of Muslim girls in Palestine from the end of the Ottoman administration through the British colonial rule. Relying upon extensive archival sources, official reports, the Palestinian Arabic press, and interviews, she describes the changes that took place in girls' education during this time. Greenberg describes how local Muslims, often portrayed as indifferent to girls' education, actually responded to the inadequacies of existing government education by sending their daughters to missionary schools despite religious tensions, or by creating their own private nationalist institutions. Greenberg shows that members of all socioeconomic classes understood the triad of girls' education, modernity, and the nationalist struggle, as educated girls would become the "mothers of tomorrow" who would raise nationalist and modern children. While this was the aim of the various schools in Palestine, not all educated Muslim girls followed this path, as some used their education, even if it was elementary at best, to become teachers, nurses, and activists in women's organizations.
Author | : Reiter |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1997-10-23 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Yitzak Reiter |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2023-07-24 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004632468 |
Islam in present day Jerusalem is influenced more than ever by political activities and agendas. This publication deals with Islamic activity and Islamic institutions in East Jerusalem under Jordanian and Israeli rule from 1948 until after the peace accords between Isreal, the PLO and Jordan. After the Israeli takeover of East Jerusalem in 1967 Islamic institutions remained Jordanian organs. This study elaborates on the strategy adopted by the Palestinians of establishing a local Palestinian Supreme Muslim Authority serving a political body to handle Palestinian religious and national debate for the future of Jerusalem. One of the features of this debate is the Jordanian-Palestinian-Israeli competence over the holy places in Jerusalem. The waqf (pious endowments) institution, which is in decline in many Muslim countries, has been revived under Israeli rule. The economic resources of the waaf have been mobilized for the political struggle and it serves as a means to preserve the Islamic character of East Jerusalem and to strengthen the Muslim Arab population's attachment to Islamic institution. This study focuses on the role of the Shari'a (Islamic law) Courts in various mechanisms which were developed to facilitate the adoptation of the traditional Islamic institutions to modern conditions.