Aldine Izz Al-Qassam

Sheik Aldine Izz Al-Qassam (rear RTL عزّالدينالقسّام) was born in Syria in 1882 and died in 1935 at the time of a battle against the Britanniques. He is regarded as one of the fathers of Palestinian resistance.

Born with Lattaquié in Syria, it made its studies with the Université Al-Azhar in Egypt or it nourished ideas of Islam reformist and salafist. At the time of its stay, he was opposed to the institutional Islam of the Mufti and Oulémas. Anticolonialist and anti-Zionist, his goal was the establishment of an Islamic State in Palestine thanks to the armed Jihad.

It resists initially against the French occupation of its country after the First World War then passes clandestinely in Palestine, where leader of the movement salafist, it organizes as a preacher, as of his arrival with Haïfa, resistance against the British mandate on Palestine, from which it estimates that it prepares in fact the seizure of the movements Zionists on the Palestinian grounds, and the creation of a Jewish national hearth.

In 1930, it leads a clandestine movement, especially made up of peasants. Until 1935, it enlisted from 200 to 800 men. The muftis refuse that it uses the money intended for the maintenance of the mosques to finance its armed movement. It is near the nationalist Arabic that it finds in particular support at Istiqlal. As from November 1935, it carries out the Arab popular revolt, with a clear coloring of populist Islam and holy war, but fall, killed by the British troops. After its death, in November, a general strike is launched to obtain the stop of Jewish immigration and the sale of the grounds to the Jews. It will be prolonged until October 1936. In parallel the actions of guerilla against the British installations multiply.

Become a martyr, his name is recovered by the nationalists secularists, and was given to the armed wing Hamas: the Brigades Aldine Izz Al-Qassam

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Books

the Sheik Aldine Izz Al-Qassam in the Palestinian history of Bayan Nuwayhid Al-Hout, 1987.

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