Al-Husayni family

Banu Ghadia
Al-Ghadia al-Husseini
بنو غضية
آل غضية الحسيني
Hussenid Arab tribe
NisbaAl-Husseini (Al-Husayni)
LocationMainly Jerusalem
Descended fromSheik Ghadia ibn Ammar ibn Abi Bakr ibn Abi al-Fadael ibn Yousha ibn Jamal al-Din ibn Barakat ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Ahmed ibn Sharaf al-Din
ReligionSunni Islam
Musa al-Husayni was the Mayor of Jerusalem and led the Palestinian national movement

Husayni (Arabic: الحسيني also spelled Husseini) is the name of a prominent Palestinian Arab clan formerly based in Jerusalem, which claims descent from Husayn ibn Ali (the son of Ali).

The Husaynis follow the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam, in contrast to the Shafi school followed by most of the Arab Muslim population of Palestine.[1]


Developed by StudentB