'Abu Al-Saud Hassan
Sheikh 'Abu Al-Saud Hassan (Hassan Abu Al-Saud) (1896-1957).
He was a "Palestinian" Arab Islamic official, Sheikh, associate[1] of the Mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini.
He was the Mufti of Al-Shafi’yah Madhab (School of Islamic Jurisprudence) in Palestine; Shari’a Court Judge in Ramleh; controller of Shari’a Islamic courts.[2]
He participated in the Caliphate Conference in Cairo in 1926, played a prominent role in the events that fueled the revolt[2] after the Islamists' incitement taking advantage of the Wailing Wall incident, and participated in the Islamic Conference in Jerusalem in 1931.[3] In 1938, he was "nominated to fill the second vacant city councillorship" in Jerusalem.[4]
He worked as an advisor to the Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini in Iraq in 1939, was a member of the Arab Nation organization in 1942, and had worked as director of the Islamic Center in Nazi Germany in Berlin in 1943.
He was involved on the Mufti's 'Imam Institute' - for training imams to serve both SS and regular Muslim units.[5]
He was captured by Allies in 1945 in Berlin, where he had fled with Mufti Amin Al-Husseini at the end of WWII,[2] and had stayed in Egypt thereafter.
Arafat, as a teenager, was a regular visitor at the court of the exiled ex-Mufti in Cairo. Among others, he met his mother's relative, Sheikh Hassan Abu Saud.[6] In fact. through Sheikh Hassan Abu Al-Saud, Arafat became acquainted with the Mufti to begin with.[7]
References
- ↑ Dorsey, James Michael. Shifting Sands: Essays On Sports And Politics In The Middle East And North Africa. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2017, p. 61.
Sheikh Hassan Abu Saud, a c, a close associate of Haj Mohammed Effendi Amin el-Husseini...
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Passia, 'Abu Al-Saud Hassan (Sheikh) (1896-1957).
...one of the prominent persons of the Palestinian Arab Party (established in 1935) ... opposing the policies of the British Mandate; Mufti of Al-Shafi’yah Madhab (School of Islamic Jurisprudence) in Palestine; Shari’a Court Judge in Ramleh; controller of Shari’a Islamic courts; captured by Allies in 1945 in Berlin, where he had fled with Mufti Amin Al-Husseini at the end of WWII; managed to leave to Switzerland while the rest of the Palestinian leaders were taken into custody by the Americans; Vice-Chairman of the All-Palestine Government, established in 1948..
- ↑ Taggar, Yehuda. The Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine: Arab Politics, 1930-1937. United Kingdom: Garland, 1986, p.171.
The Committee consisted of the Mufti as Chairman, and Abd al Aziz Ta'alabi Amin al Tamimi, Izat Darwaza, Ahmed Hilmi, Sheikh Mahmoud Dajani, Sheikh Hassan Abu Saud, and Ajaj Nuwayhid as members.
- ↑ Judge Khaledi Nominated Mayor of Jerusalem, JTA, Sep 1, 1938.
- ↑ Rubin, Barry., Schwanitz, Wolfgang G.. Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East. United Kingdom: Yale University Press, 2014, pp. 155-6.
By the end of 1944 this formation included three thousand Muslim SS men. Al-Husaini opened two schools for training imams to serve both SS and regular Muslim units: one in Dresden for Soviet Turkic recruits, and another in Guben for those from the Balkans. Among the teachers in Dresden were Professors Richard Hartmann, sixty-three, of Berlin University and Munich University's Bertold Spuler, thirty-three.
They trained forty Turkic Muslim imams at a time for both SS and regular units in six courses lasting two to four weeks each. The Guben imam school opened on April 21, 1944, in ceremonies presided over by al-Husaini and Berger... The graduates were told to preach Islam in their units, bond Germans and Muslims together, and make their soldiers into "good" SS men. The teachers were four more senior Bosnian clerics, the best-known being Husain Sulaiman Djozo, and seventeen younger men. Three of al-Husaini's aides— Shaikh Hasan, Abu as-Saud, and Mustafa al-Wakil—helped with the courses and al-Husaini himself often lectured there too.
The school trained fifty SS imams in two courses of four months each. - ↑ Casper, Lionel I.. The rape of Palestine and the struggle for Jerusalem. Israel: Gefen Publishing House, 2003, p. 198.
And yet as a boy of sixteen/seventeen (in 1946), Arafat was a regular visitor at the court of the exiled ex-Mufti in Cairo. It was from the ex-Mufti that he gained his first groundings in Palestinian nationalism.
At the el-Husseini home he met two important visitors from Jerusalem, both fervent supporters of the ex-Mufti.
One was his late mother's relative, Sheikh Hassan Abu Saud. The other was the famed soldier Abdel Kader al-Husseini who would later be killed by the Jews in the battle for the Kastel. Abdel Kader al-Husseini had been sent by the ex-Mufti for advanced military training with the Nazis in Germany. On his return, Kader came to live in Cairo where he was earmarked by the ex-Mufti to lead his nation in its fight for its country. Kader brought with him to Cairo his young son Faisal al-Husseini, who remained Arafat's colleague in the PLO until his death in 2001. Faisal al-Husseini held the Jerusalem portfolio in the Palestine Authority. - ↑ "The Palestinian National Movement..." Abu Fakhr, Saqr, The Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing, 2003, p. 27.
He was born in Cairo on 8/24/1929. His mother, Zahwa Abu Al-Saud, died when he was four. His father sent him and his brother Fathi to Jerusalem to live with their uncle, Salim Abu Al-Saud. Later on, he became acquainted with Haj Amin Al-Husseini through Sheikh Hassan Abu Al-Saud.
