Raghib an-Naschaschibi

Raghib an-Naschaschibi

Raghib Al-Naschaschibi ( Arabic راغب النشاشيبي, DMG Rāġib an-Našāšībī ; also Ragheb al-Naschaschibi ; * 1881 ; † 1951 ) was an Arab notable in Palestine and later a Jordanian minister.

Life

King George Street in Jerusalem, inaugurated in 1924 in the presence of Mayor al-Nashashibi

Under the rule of the Ottoman Empire , various influential families vied for office and influence in Jerusalem . The Nashashibis were one of those urban clans, with which an-Nashashibi was born into the elite of Palestinian Arab society.

Raghib an-Naschaschibi graduated from Istanbul University with an engineering degree and became a district engineer in Jerusalem during the Ottoman rule. In 1920 he replaced Musa Kazim al-Husaini , a member of the rival Husaini family , as Mayor of Jerusalem in the British Mandate . He was a founding member of the Arab High Committee and founded the National Defense Party in 1934 . Against the background of the decolonization of the Arab world and Zionism in Palestine, Raghib an-Naschaschibi became one of the leading figures in the opposition to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husaini .

During the Arab uprising , Nashashibi and his clan supported the British mandate by setting up small, pro-British, paramilitary units.

In late 1947, shortly before the Palestinian War, the Husainis succeeded in ousting Raghib an-Naschaschibi and his family from the Arab High Committee . Naschaschibi, who had sought to join Transjordan before the war , became Jordanian minister after the war, first for Palestinian refugees , then in 1950 for agriculture.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Benny Morris: One State, Two States , Yale, 2009 pp. 102f