Said al-Shawa

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Portrait of Said al-Shawa as Mayor of Gaza City .

Said al-Shawa ( Arabic سعيد الشوا, DMG Saʿīd aš-Šawā ; * 1868 ; † October 1930 ) was a Palestinian politician and the first mayor of Gaza City . He was in office from 1906 to 1917. and one of the members of the Muslim Supreme Council from 1921 until his death . Al-Shawi had supported the Ottomans and the anti-British Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammed Amin al-Husseini during the First World War and was an opponent of the British Mandate for Palestine .

Political career

Mayor of Gaza

Al-Shawa comes from a prominent family in Gaza City, and his father has been chairman of the municipality, founded in 1893 . Al-Shawa was appointed a local councilor in 1904 and the city's first mayor in 1906. During his tenure, he built a hospital, several mosques and schools in Gaza City, and it is said that he brought the modern plow to the region in 1911 . Al-Shawa had close ties with the army of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War and was honored by the Ottoman authorities. His sympathy for the Ottoman cause led the British, who emerged victorious from the third battle for Gaza in 1917 , to oust al-Shava.

Activity in the Supreme Islamic Council

Shortly after the establishment of the Supreme Islamic Council , al-Shawa became one of the four members of the council's highest electoral body in 1921. He represented the Jerusalem district. At that time al-Shava was wealthy and a large landowner in both Gaza and Beersheba ; in total he owned around 50,000 dunams of land. The President of the Supreme Muslim Council, Amin al-Husseini, gave al-Shava far-reaching powers in southern Palestine to assure himself of his devotion. During the restoration of the First World War partially destroyed by the British bombardment Great Mosque of Gaza (1926-1927) al-Shawa had merit. Al-Shawa died in 1930. His place on the Supreme Muslim Council was taken by Muhi ad-Din 'Abd al-Shafi, an ulama and political opponent of al-Husseini.

literature

  • * Uri M. Kupferschmidt: The Supreme Muslim Council: Islam Under the British Mandate for Palestine . Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers, ISBN 90-04-07929-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Said al-Shawa, 1906  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Gaza Municipality.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / 74.125.45.113  
  2. ↑ Kupferschmidt, 1987, p. 95.
  3. ↑ Kupferschmidt, 1987, p. 25.
  4. ↑ Kupferschmidt, 1987, p. 65.
  5. ↑ Kupferschmidt, 1987, p. 34.
personal data
SURNAME Shawa, Said al-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian politician and first mayor of Gaza City
DATE OF BIRTH 1868
DATE OF DEATH October 1930