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Biography of Abdullah ibn Husein
Name: Abdullah ibn Husein
Birth Date: 1882
Death Date: July 20, 1951
Place of Birth: Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Nationality: Saudi
Gender: Male
Occupations: political leader, nationalist
Abdullah ibn Husein
Abdullah ibn Husein (1882-1951) was an Arab nationalist and political leader who established and became king of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.Born in the Islamic holy city of Mecca, Abdullah ibn Husein was the second son of Husein ibn Ali in the city's leading family, which claimed descent from the prophet Mohammed. In 1891 he moved to Constantinople (modern Istanbul) and was raised and educated in the Ottoman capital. Following the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, the new Ottoman government appointed Husein ibn Ali the sharif of Mecca, the protector of the holy places, which was a position his family had often held. Abdullah represented the Hejaz Province of western Arabia in the reorganized Ottoman parliament and participated in Arab political movements concerned with the question of autonomy or independence for Arab areas of the multinational Ottoman Empire.Even before the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Abdullah had discreetly contacted British …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Memoirs of King Abdullah of Transjordan, edited by Philip P. Graves (trans. 1950), and My Memoirs Completed (trans. 1954). James Morris, The Hashemite Kings (1959), presents a popular story of Husein ibn Ali and his sons. British views of Abdullah are provided by Alec S. Kirkbride, a personal friend and adviser, in A Crackle of Thorns: Experiences in the Middle East (1956), and by John Bagot Glubb, the leader of the Arab Legion, in The Story of the Arab Legion (1948) and A Soldier with the Arabs (1957). Ann Dearden, Jordan (1958), is a good survey of the emirate. P. J. Vatikiotis, Politics and the Military in Jordan: A Study of the Arab Legion, 1921-1957 (1967), includes material on history and politics during the interwar era.Abdullah, King of Jordan, My memoirs completed "Al Takmilah," London ; New York: Longman, 1978. Wilson, Mary C. (Mary Christina), King Abdullah, Britain, and the making of Jordan, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
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