TY - JOUR
T1 - Islam on the Defensive
T2 - The Supreme Muslim Council's Role in Mandatory Palestine
AU - kupferschmidt, Uri
PY - 1983
Y1 - 1983
N2 - The Supreme Muslim Council, from its gradual consolidation in the early 1920s until the dismissal and escape of Hajj Amin al-Husaini as its powerful President in 1937, became the principal standard-bearer of the Islamic struggle against the "Jewish National Home" and against the "Christian Mandatory"; in this paper it is attempted to define more precisely the role which the Supreme Muslim Council played in the Framework of Palestinian Islam and the extent to which it used, or had an impact upon, Islamic institutions and symbols.
AB - The Supreme Muslim Council, from its gradual consolidation in the early 1920s until the dismissal and escape of Hajj Amin al-Husaini as its powerful President in 1937, became the principal standard-bearer of the Islamic struggle against the "Jewish National Home" and against the "Christian Mandatory"; in this paper it is attempted to define more precisely the role which the Supreme Muslim Council played in the Framework of Palestinian Islam and the extent to which it used, or had an impact upon, Islamic institutions and symbols.
UR - https://ixtheo.de/Record/1633384837
M3 - Article
SN - 1335-1257
VL - 17
SP - 175
EP - 206
JO - Asian and African Studies
JF - Asian and African Studies
ER -