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Emirate of Transjordan. AbdullahI bin Al-Hussein (Arabic: عبد الله الأول بن الحسين, romanized:ʿAbd Allāh al-Awwal bin al-Ḥusayn, 2 February 1882 – 20 July 1951) was the ruler of Jordan from 11 April 1921 until his assassination in 1951. He was the Emir of Transjordan, a British protectorate, until 25 May 1946, [ 1 ][ 2 ...
Abdullah I was assassinated a year later as he was entering the mosque to pray. [7] King Hussein in 1965 ordered the construction of a palace in East Jerusalem in 1965 to symbolize Jordan's sovereignty. It was abandoned after Jordan lost control of the West Bank to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War, and the palace remains uncompleted to this ...
Talal of Jordan. Talal bin Abdullah (Arabic: طلال بن عبد الله, romanized: Ṭalāl bin ʻAbd Allāh; 26 February 1909 – 7 July 1972) was King of Jordan from the assassination of his father, King Abdullah I, on 20 July 1951 until his forced abdication on 11 August 1952. As a member of the Hashemite dynasty, the royal family of ...
Hussein bin Talal (Arabic: الحسين بن طلال, romanized: Al-Ḥusayn bin Ṭalāl; 14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999) was King of Jordan from 11 August 1952 until his death in 1999. As a member of the Hashemite dynasty, the royal family of Jordan since 1921, Hussein was a 40th-generation direct descendant of the Islamic prophet ...
[122] Golda Meir, disguised in an Arab robe, met King Abdullah in Amman on May 10–11, the second such meeting between them. During their first, Abdullah had agreed to a partition of Palestine to include a Jewish state. Now, he retracted, suggesting instead a Jewish canton within a Hashemite kingdom. Deir Yassin had changed things, he said.
Succession rules. The throne currently passes according to agnatic primogeniture, which can be changed by decree. Thus, only male descendants of Abdullah I of Jordan, born to Muslim parents, can ascend the throne. The king has the right to appoint one of his brothers as heir apparent. If the king dies without a son or appointed brother, the ...
Absalom (Hebrew: אַבְשָׁלוֹם ʾAḇšālōm, "father of peace ") was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maacah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur. [2] 2 Samuel 14:25 describes him as the handsomest man in the kingdom. [3] Absalom eventually rebelled against his father and was killed during the Battle of Ephraim's Wood.
• Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (1946–present) • (6) Ibrahim Hashem (1878–1958) — 25 May 1946 4 February 1947 255 days Independent: Abdullah I (1946–1951) (8) Samir Al-Rifai (1901–1965) 1947: 4 February 1947 28 December 1947 327 days Independent (7) Tawfik Abu Al-Huda (1894–1956) — 28 December 1947 12 April 1950 2 years, 105 ...