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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Darwish Abd al-Qadir al-Muqdadi
(1316-1381 AH / 1898-1961 AD), a Palestinian educator and fighter, and his
nationalities are Iraqi and Kuwaiti.
his biography
He was born in Al-Taybeh and
received his primary education in Tulkarm. As for his initial lessons, he
received them in the book in his village, Al-Taybeh, his birthplace. As for
secondary and university, he attended the Islamic College and the American
University in Beirut, where he studied history, literature and sociology. After
graduating in 1922, he was appointed as a teacher at the Governmental Teachers’House in Jerusalem (1922-1925), then he resigned because the British Mandate
Authority did not allow him to form a scout troupe bearing the name Khaled bin
Al-Walid. He moved to teach at the Islamic College established by the “Supreme
Islamic Council.” He spent an academic year, then left for Iraq in 1927 to
study history at the teachers’ homes in Baghdad and Mosul.
He worked in cooperation with his
friend, the great educator, Sati' al-Husari, in order to reform the education
system, develop teaching systems, and impose the bully system in Iraqi schools.
He also made several historical geographical trips, accompanied by his friend
Nicholas Ziada, through which he crossed the lands of Palestine, Syria and
Lebanon. His aforementioned friend wrote many articles and pamphlets about this
trip.
He returned to Palestine in 1929 and
participated in that year in the Al-Buraq Revolution, instigating and calling
for fighting the British, so he was arrested and imprisoned. Then he was
released on bail, so he returned to Iraq and was sentenced in absentia to
actual imprisonment. In Baghdad, he was in constant contact with nationalist
thinkers and militants, and with them he founded a club called “Al-Muthanna
Club” in 1935. He went to Berlin in 1936 to complete his studies, but the
outbreak of World War II prevented him from achieving his goal, so he returned
to Iraq to study at its university and head the fatwa teams there.
When Rashid al-Kilani's revolution
took place in 1941, al-Muqdadi called for its support, and when it failed, the
British authorities arrested him in Iraq and put him in Naqrat al-Salman
prison, where he spent four years, then was transferred to Qar detention center
in Jerusalem. Arab in Jerusalem and a member of the Arab construction project.
After the catastrophe of 1948, he
moved to Damascus, where he was appointed as a history teacher at its
university, then he was chosen as director of the Department of Encyclopedia in
Kuwait in the years 1950-1952, then its director from 1953-1961. During his
stay in Kuwait, he worked on establishing the Kuwaiti-Jordanian Arab Institute
in Jerusalem with donations from Kuwaiti benefactors. Then he fell ill with an
incurable disease in Kuwait, he moved to London for treatment, but he returned
to Beirut, despairing of recovery, as his soul overflowed on the night of March
14, 1961 AD. Darwish Al-Muqdadi was a strong believer in his Arabism, and he
left behind several books, including:
Our History, co-authored with Akram
Zuaiter, published in 1935.
History of the Arab Nation, printed
in 1936.
Between two ignorance, a play
printed in 1967, six years after his death.
History of Kuwait and its effects.
Among his contributions and during
his work in the knowledge of Kuwait, he visited Pakistan and contacted the
education men in Karachi and agreed with them that Arabic would be the official
language of the state instead of English and he returned to Kuwait proud of
that. On the chest of this great Arab, he said: Al-Miqdadi combines eastern
morals with sublime psychological meanings, which are the characteristics of
Western work.
Darwish al-Muqdadi undertook a trip
on foot and animals with his student and friend, the Palestinian-Lebanese
historian Nicolas Ziadeh, as they set out from Jerusalem to Nabatiyeh through
the lands of Nablus, Marj Ibn Amer and Galilee to southern Lebanon in the year
1925.
Achievements and Awards
Honoring
His name was given to streets in
Amman and Taiba.
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