Salim Effendi al-Husayni () (unknown birth–1908) was

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from 1882 to 1897. Hussein al-Husayni and Mousa Kazim al-Husayni, later mayors of the city, were his sons. He was a member of the Jerusalem Council and belonged to the prominent al-Husayni clan of

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. He built a palace in the city, which his granddaughter Hind al-Husseini later developed into the Dar al-Tifl Institution, which sheltered and educated orphaned children. Al-Husayni died in 1908 and is buried in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, near the American Colony Hotel.Palestinian Personalities
Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs. (PASSIA). He is praised in '' The Diaries of Wasif Jawhariyyeh'', a memoir of a Jerusalem resident under his mayorship.

References

* Meron Benvenisti, ''City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem'', 1996, {{DEFAULTSORT:Husayni, Salim Al- 1908 deaths Arab people from Ottoman Palestine Mayors of Jerusalem Mayors of places in Palestine Salim Year of birth missing 19th-century Arab people 19th-century mayors