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Person · Poet and fighter, “the martyr poet”
1913–1948
Born in Anabta, in the Tulkarm district, in 1913, he studied at the Najah School in Nablus under Ibrahim Tuqan and taught Arabic there. Welcoming Emir Sa‘ud to Anabta in 1935, he asked in a celebrated verse whether the guest had come to visit al-Aqsa or to bid it farewell. He joined the fighters of the revolt in 1937, took refuge in Damascus and trained at the Iraqi Military Academy, and was killed by a shell on 13 July 1948 near al-Shajara, in the district of Tiberias, as the Hittin brigade attacked; he came to be known as “the martyr poet”.
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النكبة
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From the partition vote of November 1947 to the beginning of 1949, three-quarters of a million Palestinians were driven from their cities, towns and villages. More than four hundred villages and towns were destroyed and emptied, some 13,000 people were killed, and Israel came to hold about 77 percent of Mandate Palestine.
الثورة الفلسطينية الكبرى
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A nationwide Palestinian uprising against British rule, from April 1936 to the late summer of 1939: a six-month general strike, then an armed revolt, which Britain put down by force.
Joined the fighters in 1937, under Abd al-Rahim al-Haj Muhammad
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography)
Killed near al-Shajara on 13 July 1948, in the Hittin brigade’s attack
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography)
article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
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PersonAbd al-Rahim Mahmoud was born in PlaceAnabta
Role: Born here: 1913, Anabta
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: The biography’s header: born 1913, Anabta
Evidence version:palquest-abd-al-rahim-mahmoud-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonAbd al-Rahim Mahmoud participated in EventThe Great Revolt
Role: Joined the fighters in 1937, under Abd al-Rahim al-Haj Muhammad
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “Following the General Strike and Great Palestinian Rebellion of 1936, Mahmoud joined the ranks of the freedom fighters in 1937.”
Evidence version:palquest-abd-al-rahim-mahmoud-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonAbd al-Rahim Mahmoud participated in EventThe Nakba
Role: Killed near al-Shajara on 13 July 1948, in the Hittin brigade’s attack
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “On 13 July 1948, Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud was killed by a shell as the Hittin brigade was carrying out an attack on the Jewish colony of al-Sajara, close to the Arab village of al-Shajara”
Evidence version:palquest-abd-al-rahim-mahmoud-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.