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Walid Khalidi

وليد الخالدي

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Jerusalem

Palestinian historian (1925–2026), co-founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut (1963) and its general secretary until 2016. He taught at Oxford, the American University of Beirut and Harvard; his Before Their Diaspora and All That Remains are foundational documentation of Palestinian society and of the villages depopulated in 1948. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, aged 100.

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Historian
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Levant & Iraq · Americas & Oceania
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18751900192519501975200020252050
The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Muazzez İlmiye Çığ · Ali Hassan Mwinyi · Dahiru Bauchi · M. S. Swaminathan · Ali Yafie

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Jerusalem

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    Jerusalem

    People and things also explored

    Masjid Al-Aqsa· al-Haram al-Sharif (the Temple Mount esplanade)· Dome of the Rock· Mosque of Omar· The Western Wall (Buraq Wall)· Arson at al-Aqsa Mosque (1969)· Al-Sakhawi's Syrian rihla: Aleppo, Damascus, Jerusalem, c. 873· Atsiz ibn Uwaq's campaign against Syria

    Sources

    • Walid Khalidi — English Wikipedia
    • Walid Khalidi — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Walid Khalidi — Wikidata
    • Walid Khalidi obituary — Arab Center Washington DC, 2026
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    islam.museum contributors. “Walid Khalidi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/walid-khalidi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-31.

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    Masjid Al-Aqsa

    The Aqsa mosque on Jerusalem's south-east corner as al-Muqaddasi saw it: Davidic foundations of ten-cubit carved blocks, Abd al-Malik's superstructure 'finer than the Damascus mosque' until an Abbasid-era earthquake felled the roofed part save the mihrab; too costly for the treasury, the caliph had each provincial amir rebuild one arcade — leaving a visible 'seam' — and Abdallah ibn Tahir added fifteen marble arcades; twenty-six doors, the greatest plated in gilded brass, the domes of the Chain, the Ascension and the Prophet on its platform.