Salim Effendi al-Husayni ( ar, سليم الحسيني) (unknown birth–1908) was Mayor of Jerusalem from 1882 to 1897.

Hussein al-Husayni Hussein Bey al-Husayni ( ar, حسين الحسيني; 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 ...

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 clan of

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. He built a palace in the city, which his granddaughter Hind al-Husseini later developed into the Dar al-Tifl Institution. Al-Husayni died in 1908 and is buried in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, near the

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

References

* Meron Benvenisti, ''City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem'', 1996, {{DEFAULTSORT:Husayni, Salim Al- 1908 deaths Arabs in Ottoman Palestine Mayors of Jerusalem Palestinian politicians Salim Year of birth missing 19th-century Arabs