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POLITICIAN

Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni

1907 - 1948

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Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni (Arabic: عبد القادر الحسيني), also spelled Abdul Qadir al-Husseini (1907 – 8 April 1948), was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and fighter who in late 1933 founded the secret militant group known as the Organization for Holy Struggle (Munathamat al-Jihad al-Muqaddas), which he and Hasan Salama commanded as the Army of the Holy War (Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas) during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt and during the 1948 war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni has received more than 227,171 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni is the 8,831st most popular politician (down from 8,117th in 2019), the 186th most popular biography from Israel (down from 178th in 2019) and the 71st most popular Israeli Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni ranks 8,831 out of 15,577Before him are Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Publius Decius Mus, Peng Zhen, Stefan Branković, Josef Bürckel, and Ilu-shuma. After him are George Vassiliou, André Marty, Sitalces, Kamehameha V, Dámaso Berenguer, and Lucius Cornelius Balbus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni ranks 130Before him are Bo Gu, Yves Allégret, Viktoria Brezhneva, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Takeo Wakabayashi, and George de Mestral. After him are Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Walter Frentz, Sergei Kruglov, Isaac Deutscher, Rudolf Peierls, and Álvaro Gestido. Among people deceased in 1948, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni ranks 79Before him are Kâzım Karabekir, Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria, Achille Varzi, Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, Edith Roosevelt, and Irmfried Eberl. After him are Georgios Tsolakoglou, Harilal Gandhi, Leo White, Paul Wegener, Rosika Schwimmer, and Karl Valentin.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni ranks 186 out of 430Before him are Esther Ofarim (1941), Al-Hafiz (1074), Sarah Aaronsohn (1890), Yael Dayan (1939), Alexander of Judaea (-100), and Naji al-Ali (1937). After him are Carmela Corren (1938), Rafael Eitan (1929), Hillel Slovak (1962), Hugh I of Cyprus (1194), May Ziade (1886), and Yitzhak Hofi (1927).

Among POLITICIANS In Israel

Among politicians born in Israel, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni ranks 71Before him are Ron Huldai (1944), Meir Amit (1921), Al-Hafiz (1074), Sarah Aaronsohn (1890), Yael Dayan (1939), and Alexander of Judaea (-100). After him are Rafael Eitan (1929), Hugh I of Cyprus (1194), Rehavam Ze'evi (1926), Ahmed Jibril (1938), Yair Lapid (1963), and Shulamit Aloni (1928).