  haj mohammed effendi amin el-husseini (;"husseini" is the french transliteration preferred by the family itself, from the time when french was the dominant western language taught in the ottoman empire.   1897;. mattar, writing on the uncertainty of al-husseini's birthdate, notes that he wrote both 1895 and 1896 on official documents between 1921 and 1934, which mattar suggests was due to both years corresponding to 1313 a.h. in the islamic calendar. mattar found no documentary evidence for husseini's claim, written later in life, that he was born in 1897.. laurens argues that 1897 was his likely date of birth, suggesting he was induced by circumstances to make out he was older in giving various dates for his birth, ranging from 1893 to 1897. â 4 july 1974) was a palestinian arab nationalist and muslim leader in mandatory palestine. al-husseini was the scion of a family of jerusalemite notables.:'the scion of one (of) the most influential notable families of jerusalem.' after receiving an education in islamic, ottoman and catholic schools, he went on to serve in the ottoman army in world war i. at war's end, he positioned himself in damascus as a supporter of the arab kingdom of syria. following the fiasco of the franco-syrian war and the collapse of the arab hashemite rule in damascus, his early position on pan-arabism shifted to a form of local nationalism for palestinian arabs and he moved back to
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