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Amin al-Husseini, also called al-Hajj Amin or Hajj Amin, in full Muḥammad Amīn Ṭāhir Muṣṭafā al-Ḥusayni, (born 1897, Jerusalem, Palestine, Ottoman Empire died July 4, 1974, Beirut, Lebanon), grand mufti of Jerusalem and Arab nationalist figure who played a major role in Arab resistance to Zionist political ambitions in Palestine. Husseini studied in Jerusalem, Cairo, and Istanbul, and in 1910 he was commissioned in the Ottoman artillery. In December 1921 the British, who had accepted a mandate for Palestine after World War I (1914–18), named Husseini grand mufti of Jerusalem and president of the newly created Supreme Muslim Council the most authoritative

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