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Oct 24, 2017 · Icon of Evil chronicles al-Husseini's postwar relationships with such influential Islamic figures as the radical theoretician Sayyid Qutb and Saddam Hussein's powerful uncle General Khairallah Talfah and his crucial mentoring of the young Yasser Ararat. Finally, it provides compelling evidence that al-Husseini's actions and writings serve as inspirations today to the leaders of Hamas ...
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Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam is a 2008 book by David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann initially published by Random House; the 2009 version of the book by Transaction Publishers has an introduction by Alan Dershowitz. [1] It is a biography of Haj Amin al-Husseini (1895–1974), who was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem ...
- David Dalin
- 2008
Sep 26, 2008 · Throughout the book, Dalin and Rothmann tend to blur the terms radical Islam, anti-Semitism and Nazism, and numerous Arab and Muslim leaders are grouped together as disciples of the mufti ...
- Tom Segev
Jan 1, 2008 · In this book, Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam, author David G. Dalin provides a biographical look at one of the most vicious anti-semite Islamists of the Twentieth Century. Hajj Amin-al-Husseini was the political and spiritual leader of the Palestinian Arabs.
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With new and disturbing details, David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann show how al -Husseini ingratiated himself with his hero, Adolf Hitler, becoming, with his blond hair and blue eyes, an "honorary Aryan" while dreaming of being installed as Nazi leader of the Middle East.
Jul 12, 2017 · Icon of Evil. : David Dalin. Routledge, Jul 12, 2017 - Religion - 245 pages. A chilling, fascinating, and nearly forgotten historical figure is resurrected in this riveting work that links the fascism of the last century with the terrorism of our own. Written with vigor and extraordinary access to primary sources in several languages, Icon of ...
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Jul 1, 2008 · Exposing the link between the fascism of the past and twenty-first-century radical Islam, a detailed portrait of Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the spiritual and political leader of the Palestinian Arabs from the 1920s, describes his alliance with Hitler, his advocacy of the Final Solution, and his fomenting of Nazi-style anti-Semitic propaganda throughout the Islamic world.
- David G. Dalin, John F. Rothmann
