al-Fatḥ - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" al-Fatḥ - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Baumgarten, Helga

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060135
Doc. NO	:	ALei532
Main Entry	:	Baumgarten, Helga
Title & Author	:	al-Fatḥ - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Baumgarten, Helga
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,911 words)
Abstract	:	Al-Fatḥ (also Fataḥ, an inverted acronym for Ḥarakat al-Taḥrīr al-Waṭanī al-Filasṭīnī, Palestinian National Liberation Movement) has dominated the Palestinian National Movement since 1969. It was founded in Kuwait in 1959 by Palestinian migrant workers, most of them professionals employed there. Yāsir ʿArafāt (1929–2004), who studied engineering in Cairo and started his political career as a student leader in the early 1950s in Egypt, controlled the movement almost from the beginning. Even after his death, in November 2004, he remained the symbol for Palestinian nationalism. The
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei532.pdf