Abd al-Qader al-Husseini
| Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni عبد القادر الحسيني |
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| Birth name | Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni |
| Born | 1907 Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1948 al-Qastal, British Palestine |
| Allegiance | Palestine's Arab irregular forces |
| Service/branch | Army of the Holy War |
| Years of service | 1936–1948 |
| Battles/wars |
1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine |
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni (Arabic: عبد القادر الحسيني, also spelled Abd al-Qader al-Husseini) (1907 – 8 April 1948) was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and fighter who in late 1933 founded the secret militant group known as the Organization for Holy Struggle (Munathamat al-Jihad al-Muqaddas), which he and Hasan Salama commanded as the Army of the Holy War (Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas) during the 1936–39 Arab revolt and during the 1948 war.
Husayni was born to the influential al-Husayni family of Jerusalem, son of Musa al-Husayni and the nephew of Amin al-Husayni. He graduated in chemistry at the American University in Cairo, and organized the Congress of Educated Muslims.
Initially, he took a post in the settlement department of the British Mandate government, but eventually moved to the Hebron area during the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine to lead the struggle against the British. A member of the Palestine Arab Party, he served as its secretary-general and became editor-in-chief of the party's paper Al-Liwa’ and other newspapers, including Al-Jami’a Al-Islamiyya.
Abd al-Qadir married in 1934 and fathered Faisal al-Husayni (17 July 1940–31 May 2001), the founder and leader of Arab Studies Society, head of Fatah organization in the West Bank and Palestinian Authority Minister for Jerusalem Affairs.
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