1. Prince Rashed Al-Khuzai, full name Prince Rashed bin Prince Khuzai bin Durgham bin Fayad bin Prince Mustapha bin Salameh Al Fraihat, was a Sunni Islamic political figure.
18 Facts About Rashed Al-Khuzai
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The Ajloun region and Prince Rashed Al-Khuzai are known to the Palestine Liberation Organization leadership.
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Rashed Al-Khuzai was known as the Prince of Ajloun Mountain, Father of Ajloun, Father of the Ajloun revolution, and Godfather of Ajloun.
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Rashed Al-Khuzai was born in Kufranjeh in 1850, the son of Prince Khuzai bin Durgham bin Fayyad bin Prince Mustafa bin Salameh Al-Fraihat.
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Rashed Al-Khuzai's ancestors had ruled the region for generations, and he made the Mountain of Ajloun its capital.
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Rashed Al-Khuzai ruled the southern Levant before King Abdullah I, who established Transjordan with the support of the British Mandate and its allies.
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Rashed Al-Khuzai's family had focused on leading the Ajloun clan through literacy and religious education.
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Rashed Al-Khuzai received his education in the home of his father, Prince Khuzai, which was an administrative gathering place.
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Rashed Al-Khuzai said that any assault or abuse directed at a Christian would be considered an attack on him, his tribe and all tribes under his rule, and would be punished.
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Rashed Al-Khuzai received a gift from the pope in 1887, the first Arab leader to do so.
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Rashed Al-Khuzai supported Palestinian revolutions in 1935 and 1936, protecting and supplying the rebels and meeting with other Palestinian leaders.
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Rashed Al-Khuzai suggested a Jordanian national conference, which he led in 1928.
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Rashed Al-Khuzai supported Arab liberation movements such as the Syrian revolution, and supported Kufranjeh when hundreds of activists fled there from Syria on July 25,1920.
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Rashed Al-Khuzai made his birthplace a major location for members of the Independence Party, while Syrian revolutionary leaders used his home as a communications base.
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Rashed Al-Khuzai transformed Kufranjeh and Ajloun into bases of struggle against colonialism and joined the Arab nationalists.
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Rashed Al-Khuzai led a number of demonstrations, including one in Irbid which protested the June 17,1930 execution of Palestinian activists Fuad Hijazi, Atta Al-Zeer, and Mohammad Khaleel Jamjoum by the British.
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Rashed Al-Khuzai's revolution reflected Jordanian needs for freedom, democracy, and unity with the Palestinian people, and much information about him was hidden by the Jordanian regime.
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Rashed Al-Khuzai died in Kufranjeh in 1957, and poems have commemorated him.