Muhammad Ahmad Hussein

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Mohammed Ahmed Hussein

Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein (also Mohammed , Arabic محمد أحمد حسين, DMG Muḥammad Aḥmad Ḥusayn ) is a Sunni clergyman and legal scholar . He is the reigning Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine , whose sphere of influence also extends to the West Bank and neighboring Jordan , as well as the head of the Jerusalem Waqf Authority .

Life

He has been in office since July 2006, in which he was installed by the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmud Abbas , who replaced his predecessor Ikrima Sa'id Sabri (* 1939). The Grand Mufti is the head of the Palestinian Muslim clergy. Hussein is the seventh Grand Mufti.

In 1973 he received his bachelor's degree in Islamic law from the Faculty of Sharia at the University of Jordan . He holds a Masters degree in Modern Islamic Studies from the University of Jerusalem . He completed part of his training with Sheikh Mohammed Haschim al-Baghdadi

Before he assumed the office of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hussein was Imam of the al-Aqsa Mosque and costumer of the holy places of Jerusalem. He is one of the Senior Fellows of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought ( Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought ).

Muhammad quote from al-Bukhari and Muslim (2011)

On January 9, 2011, when addressing a crowd - according to the New York Times at an event marking the 47th anniversary of the founding of Fatah - Hussein cited a controversial hadith attributed to the Prophet Mohammed and transmitted by al-Bukhari and Muslim , that says:

“The Hour will not come until you fight the Jews. The Jews will hide behind stones or trees. Then the stones or trees will call: Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. "

“The hour (of divine judgment and resurrection) will not come until you have fought the Jews. The Jews will hide behind stones or trees. Then the stones or trees will call out: 'Oh, Muslim, servants of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.' "

The mufti's comments were broadcast on Palestinian television that same day and then further disseminated on January 15 by Palestinian Media Watch , an Israeli watchdog journalism group. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the words of the Mufti as "morally abhorrent" and compared his actions with those of the former Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini , who in the 1930s and 40s with Adolf Hitler had allied.

In an interview with the Israeli TV broadcaster Channel 2 on October 25, 2015, Muhammad Ahmad Hussein denied that there was ever a Jewish temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. According to the Grand Mufti, this place was a mosque “3,000 years ago and 30,000 years ago” and would have been “since the creation of the world”. Regarding the al-Aqsa mosque , which was built in the 7th century under the caliph Omar ibn al-Khattab , the mufti claimed that it was "built by Adam or by the angels in his time".

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The Grand Mufti was arrested on May 8, 2013 on the occasion of a scuffle between Palestinians and Israelis at the al-Aqsa Mosque , the most important mosque in Jerusalem. He was also temporarily arrested after calling for protests against the police at the entrances to the Temple Mount.

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  1. ↑ cf. Der Spiegel 44/1951: Dynamite on legs : “In contrast to a Christian bishop, however, a mufti has a secular rank in addition to the spiritual one. The Muftis of Jerusalem were the supreme spiritual and secular heads of the Muslims within the former political structure of Palestine. "
  2. ↑ On Sheikh Muhammad Hashim al-Baghdadi (1909-1995) from the Qadiri - Sufi order , cf. islamophile.org: Sheikh Muhammad Hâshim Al-Baghdâdî & Hassan Abu Hanieh: Sufism and Sufi orders: God's spiritual paths; adaption and renewal in the context of modernization . Amman, December 2011 ( Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung ), online at library.fes.de , p. 154 f.
  3. ↑ darifta.org (CV)
  4. ↑ aalalbayt.org
  5. ↑ nytimes.com : "47th anniversary of the founding of Fatah"
  6. ^ A political party in the Palestinian Territories .
  7. ↑ On the last two personalities mentioned, see also The two "healthy" Sahih works
  8. ↑ On the canonization of al-Buchari and Muslim as well as the formation and function of the Sunni hadith canon; see. Jonathan Brown : The Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon . 2007
  9. ↑ Isabel Kershner: 2 Palestinian Legislators Are Arrested in East Jerusalem Protest. The New York Times, January 23, 2012, accessed February 4, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Isabel Kershner (23 January 2012). "2 Palestinian Legislators Are Arrested in East Jerusalem Protest". The New York Times
  11. ↑ PM: Investigate PA cleric who called to kill Jews (Herb Keinon). - On the person and historical processes, cf. Der Spiegel 44/1951: Dynamite on legs
  12. ↑ Ilan Ben Zion: Jerusalem mufti: Temple Mount never housed Jewish Temple . October 25, 2015. 
  13. ↑ And one of the most important sites in Islam (see list of Islamic pilgrimage sites ).
  14. ↑ uk.reuters.com: Israeli forces detain top Palestinian cleric & jewishpress.com: Police Arrest Jerusalem Mufti ( The Jewish Press )
  15. ↑ dw.com: Grand Mufti of Jerusalem arrested after shooting ( Deutsche Welle )
Muhammad Ahmad Hussein (alternative names of the lemma)
Mohammed Ahmad Hussein; Mohammed Ahmad Husein; Muhammed Ahmad Husein; Muḥammad Aḥmad Ḥusayn; Muhammad Ahmad Husayn; Sheikh Mohammad Hussein
personal data
SURNAME Hussein, Muhammad Ahmad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hussein, Mohammed Ahmad; حسين, محمد أحمد (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sunni clergyman and legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century