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Person · Nationalist leader; member of the Arab Higher Committee
1887–1957
Born in the village of Ijzim, in the Haifa district, in 1887, he studied in Istanbul and served as an Ottoman official, among other posts as mayor of Acre. A member of the Young Arab Society, he represented Haifa at the General Syrian Congress in Damascus in 1919 and rejected the Balfour Declaration. In April 1936 he was among those who urged Haj Amin al-Husseini to form a supreme leadership for the general strike, and he travelled to Iraq for him to bring Fawzi al-Qawuqji to lead armed volunteers. After the Nakba he took refuge in Damascus, where he died in 1957.
An introductory profile. The source material below provides the fuller record.
Muin al-Madi
الثورة الفلسطينية الكبرى
Wider context · timing qualified
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.
Urged a supreme leadership for the general strike; went to Iraq to bring Fawzi al-Qawuqji to lead the volunteers
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography)
article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
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PersonMu‘in al-Madi was born in PlaceIjzim
Role: Born here: 1887, Ijzim
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 1887, Ijzim
Evidence version:palquest-muin-al-madi-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonMu‘in al-Madi participated in EventThe Great Revolt
Role: Urged a supreme leadership for the general strike; went to Iraq to bring Fawzi al-Qawuqji to lead the volunteers
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “During the 1936 revolt, al-Madi travelled to Iraq at the request of Haj Amin al-Husseini, where he helped to bring a Lebanese army officer and expert in guerrilla warfare, Fawzi al-Qawuqji…”
Evidence version:palquest-muin-al-madi-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.