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The king of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (Arabic: ملك المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية) is the monarchical head of state of Jordan. He serves as the head of the Jordanian monarchy—the Hashemite dynasty. The king is addressed as His Majesty (صاحب الجلالة). Jordan is a constitutional monarchy. However, the king ...
Abdullah I bin Al-Hussein (Arabic: عبد الله الأول بن الحسين, romanized: ʿAbd Allāh al-Awwal bin al-Ḥusayn, 2 February 1882 – 20 July 1951) was the ruler of Jordan from 11 April 1921 until his assassination in 1951.
King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life (Yale University Press; 2008) excerpt; Bradshaw, Tancred. Britain and Jordan: imperial strategy, King Abdullah I and the Zionist movement (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012). El-Anis, Imad H. (2011). Jordan and the United States : the political economy of trade and economic reform in the Middle East. London ...
Prince Zeid bin Hussein, who moved to Jordan when his brother's grandson, King Faisal II of Iraq, was overthrown and murdered in a coup in 1958. Hassan, died at a young age. Hussein bin Ali continued to rule an independent Hejaz, of which he proclaimed himself king, between 1916 and 1924, after the collapse of Ottoman power, with the tacit ...
On July 20, 1951, Abdullah I, the first King of Jordan, was assassinated while visiting the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Abdullah was in Jerusalem to give a eulogy at Riad Al Solh's funeral, the first Prime Minister of Lebanon. He attending Friday prayers at the mosque with his grandson, Prince Hussein. Abdullah was fatally shot three times in ...
Prince William, 40, and Kate, 41, were among the many star-studded guests attending Jordan’s first royal wedding in years. ... King Hussein, who ruled Jordan for 46 years until his death in 1999.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Princess Rajwa, wife of Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan, gave birth to a baby girl Saturday, the couple's firstborn and first grandchild of King Abdullah II, the country's ...
The sharif's son, Abdullah I (the first King of Jordan) is said to have personally extinguished a fire which engulfed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 1949. [6] Jordan under Abdullah I had occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and annexed the territories in 1951.