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Hassan Shaker Hammad (1870-1942)
Palestinian politician, born in the Palestinian city of Tulkarem. Both the
“Administrative Decentralization Party” and the “Freedom and Coalition Party”,
and he was an elected member of the Beirut State Council.
His upbringing and education
Hassan Shaker Hammad was born in the
city of Tulkarem, Palestine, in 1870. He received his education in the schools
of his city, Tulkarem. He also studied in the city of Tulkarem from a number of
scholars and sheikhs in language and jurisprudence. He mastered the Ottoman
Turkish language in addition to his knowledge of the French and Persian
languages, as well as the prevailing administrative laws. at that time.
political life and positions
Hassan Hammad began his political
and practical life as head of the clerk of the Land Department in Palestine. He
also assumed the presidency of the Education Committee and worked to expand its
activities. He established in Palestine the first nursery school for children,
the first of its kind in the Ottoman Empire, and he specially brought teachers
from Lebanon for it. He also recommended imposing « Knowledge tax” on the
population with the aim of developing the educational movement, so the Ottoman
government took his recommendation and applied it in all parts of the country.
In 1913, Hassan Hammad became the
mayor of Nablus, where he continued to do so until 1915. During his reign, in
1914, the National Governmental Hospital was developed. He was also elected a
member of the Assembly of the Commonwealth of Beirut, then he belonged to the
“Administrative Decentralization Party” and the “Freedom and Coalition Party.”He was one of the first to call for the recognition of the Arabic language as
an official language in the Ottoman Empire, along with the Turkish language.
The Administrative Decentralization
Party chose him, accompanied by his friend Saeed Al-Karmi, as the party’s
representative in Palestine, so on July 30, 1915, Jamal Pasha issued a death
sentence against him. Hammad, however, went to Beirut on August 20, 1915 to
turn himself in; But he backed down from that after he noticed the process of
setting up the gallows, so he realized that Jamal Pasha was lying to him and
trying to trap him, so he fled to Damascus, where he hid there with one of his
friends.
After the end of Jamal Pasha's rule,
and with the mediation of the army's mufti, Sheikh Abdul Qadir Al-Muzaffar;Hasan Hammad was pardoned, and he returned to Palestine in the aftermath of
that, and in 1918 he founded An-Najah National University, where he invited a
number of Palestinian men to establish it under the name “An-Najah National
School.”
During his life, Hassan Hammad was a
member of both the “Palestinian National Christian Islamic Society” and the
“Arab Scientific Society.” On September 8, 1937, he participated in the Arab
National Conference in Bloudan, or what was known as the “Bloudan Conference,”where he was one of the members of the conference. .
his death
Hassan Hammad died in Nablus in
1942, at the age of 72.
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