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

Mayor of Jerusalem The Mayor of the City of Jerusalem is head of the executive branch of the political system in Jerusalem. The mayor's office administers all city services, public property, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within Jerusal ...

from 1882 to 1897.

Hussein al-Husayni Hussein Bey al-Husayni (; died 1918) was a Palestinian politician who served as mayor of Jerusalem from 1909 to 1917, the last years of Ottoman rule over the city. Born into the prominent Jerusalemite Arab family of al-Husayni, his father Sa ...

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 Husayni ( also spelled Husseini) is the name of a prominent Palestinian families, Palestinian Arab clan formerly based in Jerusalem, which claims descent from Husayn ibn Ali (the son of Ali). The Husaynis follow the Hanafi school of Sunni Isl ...

clan of

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. He built a palace in the city, which his granddaughter

Hind al-Husseini Hind al-Husseini (; 25 April 1916 – 13 September 1994) was a Palestinian woman notable for rescuing 55 orphaned survivors of the Deir Yassin massacre, after they were dropped off in Jerusalem and left to fend for themselves. She later conv ...

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 Sheikh Jarrah (, ) is a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, north of the Old City, on the road to Mount Scopus. It received its name from the 13th-century tomb of Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi, a physician of Saladin, located ...

, near the American Colony Hotel.Palestinian Personalities

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. (PASSIA). He is praised in '' The Diaries of Wasif Jawhariyyeh'', a memoir of a Jerusalem resident under his mayorship.

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, ''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

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Year of birth missing 19th-century Arab people 19th-century mayors