High Commissioner Samuel grants the most important…

November 1921 CE

High Commissioner Samuel grants the most important posts to two old preeminent and ambitious Jerusalem families, the Husaynis and the Nashashibis, whose members had held numerous government posts in the late Ottoman period.

Of the two clans, the Husaynis are given the most powerful posts, many of which have no precedent under Ottoman rule.

Amin al-Husayni, who had studied in Jerusalem, Cairo, and Istanbul, in 1910 had been commissioned in the Turkish artillery, and in the postwar period has become a strong voice in the Arab nationalist and anti-Zionist movements.

Samuel in December 1921 appoints Husayni, a major figure behind the April 1920 riots, as permanent president and mufti of the newly created Supreme Muslim Council, the most authoritative religious body in the Palestinian Muslim community.

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