Musa al-Husayni

Musa Kazim Pasha al-Husayni (1853–1934) was a Palestinian politician who rose through the Ottoman administration, served as mayor of Jerusalem from 1918 to 1920, and from 1920 until his death chaired the Executive Committee of the Palestine Arab Congress, the leading Palestinian political body of the early Mandate years ^{1 2}.

He was born in Jerusalem in 1853, son of Salim al-Husayni; his brother Hussein also served as mayor of Jerusalem, and his son was Abd al-Qader al-Husseini. Educated at the Maktab Malkiya in Istanbul, where he graduated third in the empire, he held a long series of Ottoman governorships — among them Safed, Akkar, Irbid, Asir, Najd, Hauran and al-Muntafaq — and was kaymakam of Jaffa in 1905 ^{1 2}.

In 1918 the British military governor Ronald Storrs appointed him mayor of Jerusalem. After the April 1920 Nabi Musa riots he was dismissed and briefly imprisoned at Acre; Raghib al-Nashashibi succeeded him. At the third Palestine Arab Congress, held at Haifa in December 1920, he was elected president of its Executive Committee and led it until his death, heading delegations to London in 1921, 1923 and 1924 and to Ankara and Lausanne in 1922, and refusing, the English article records, to conduct his nationalist activity in any language but Arabic ¹.

The English article gives his death in Jerusalem on 27 March 1934, widely believed at the time to have resulted from injuries sustained during an anti-British demonstration; the Arabic and Urdu articles give 26 March 1934 and death at Jaffa, with burial at Bab al-Hadid west of the Haram al-Sharif ^{1 2 3}.

No article followed here states his religion, and his Wikidata item carries no religion value. His affiliation is therefore recorded as unknown ^{1 4}.