The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 74)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 74)

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area, where he established a guerrilla group to fight the French.”
However, with the advance of the French troops to Damascus in 1920
and the death sentence passed on him by the French, al-Qassam fled
Syria and arrived in Palestine in 1921." al-Qassam settled in Haifa, which
became the refuge for many Syrian exiles. He worked between 1922 and
1925 in the al-Burj Islamic school. When in 1925 the al-Istiqlal mosque
was established, al Qassam became the Imam of this mosque. He later
joined the Muslim Youth Association in Haifa, and in 1928 he was
elected as the head of the Muslim Youth Association branch in Haifa,
while he was still an Imam at the al-Istiqlal mosque."
al-Qassam’s early teachings
Since his early months in Palestine, al-Qassam had established contacts
with the people around him, in particular enjoying good relations with
people of the slums of Haifa such as railway workers, construction
workers, stevedores, artisans, and small shop-keepers. He started to
teach those of them who were illiterate to read and write."5 At the al-
Istiqlal mosque, al-Qassam tried to put across his ideas about Jihad (holy
war) to the people, both in an indirect way by always quoting in his
prayers those verses in the Quran which deal with Jihad, and in a direct
way in Friday preaching and the daily evening lessons. He spoke of the
struggle against both the British and the Zionists, as he believed that the
Zionists would not be able to succeed in establishing a Jewish national
home in Palestine without the aid that they were getting from the British.
One of the early followers of al-Qassam recalls that at one of his sermons
at Friday prayers in 1927, al-Qassam asked the people to receive the
12.Ibid, pp26-32.
13. Abdullah Schleiffer, he Life and Thought" Islamic
Quarterly, (August 1981) p
14.Ali Hussein Khalaf, Taj iribat, 1- Sheikh. p37
15.Samih Hammoudeh, al- Wa? i Wa al-Thawra. 033
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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources

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1990-10

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