Birth: NULL/NULL/1900 Death:NULL/NULL/1980
Born in Hebron in 1900; studied at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, gaining degrees in 1918, 1921, 1922; and a degree in Islamic Law in 1931 (therefore the title “Sheikh”); became mayor of Hebron under the British Mandate in 1940; President of Muslim Youth Association; was Pres. of the Dec. 1948 Jericho Conference, which called for the unification of the West Bank and Jordan; formally asked King Abdullah I to accept the throne of Palestine at Shuneh, the king’s winter palace near Jericho, in Dec. 1948; served as mayor of Hebron from 1948-76; owned Sawt Al-Khalil & Ulema’s Conference magazines; held a seat in the Upper Chamber of the Jordanian government in the 1950s; was appointed to the Jordanian Senate (1950-51, 1959-62, 1963-64), and the cabinet (1955, 1958-60); proposed after the Israeli occupation of the West Bank in 1967 a five-year transitional phase with Israeli military redeployment, after which Palestinians would exercise their right for self-determination (was criticized by both Jordan and the PLO for this); set up a public forum in Hebron, Lajnat Al-Masalih Al-‘Amma (Public Interests Committee) in late 1969; member of various Jordanian cabinets in the 1970s; died on 29 May 1980.
