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- Country of residence: Turkey
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Born in 1864 in Jerusalem; writer and essayist; held many administrative positions during the Ottoman rule; studied Islamic sciences and philosophy in Paris; lecturer at Sorbonne University, Paris; scholar and teacher at the Institute for Foreign Languages in Paris; appointed Counsel General of the Ottoman Empire in Bordeaux, France, from 1898 to 1908; elected in Jerusalem to the Ottoman parliament in 1908 and 1912; representative of Jerusalem in the Ottoman parliament from 1911 until his death; in 1911 vice-president of the parliament; lifelong active anti-Zionist; wrote one of the earliest, fully detailed manuscripts on Zionist ideology and organization in Arabic; died on August 6, 1913 in Istanbul, Turkey.
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