Hājj Muhammad Amīn al-Husaynī as grand mufti of Jerusalem and president of the Supreme Muslim Council, 1921-1937
Institution: | McGill University |
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Department: | Institute of Islamic Studies |
Degree: | MA |
Year: | 1961 |
Keywords: | Husayni, Amin, 1893-1974.; Palestine – History – 1917-1948. |
Record ID: | 1561702 |
Full text PDF: | http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile104333.pdf |
In 1917 the British Government gave its sanction to the establishmentof a Jewish National Home in Palestine. In 1948 the independentState of Israel came into existence as an outgrowth of that sanction.At the end of this thirty-one year period the Jews constituted aboutone-third of the population of Palestine, but their tremendous zeal,backed by a large financial outlay by the Jews of the Diaspora, madethem more than a match for the remainder of the population. During thethree decades of the Jewish National Home in Palestine, they had builta prosperous community in the midst of a conservative society.