Talk:Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

This article reads like a hagiography rather than an encylopedia entry.

The loss of Palestine in 1948 together with the failure of a coup attempt by Abdullah al-Tall in Jordan to which al-Nabhani had been party convinced him that only a structured and deep intellectual work could bring the nation back to its glory and strength.'

-- Regarding this coup attempt:

ASHU, Mustafa (1930--1951), was a tailor's apprentice who assassinated King Abdullah Ibn Hussein of Jordan (1882--1951) on July 20, 1951. Abdullah, along with his grandson Hussein, entered the al-Aqsa Mosque in the Jordanian-held Old City of Jerusalem when a shaykh(sheik) came forward to pay homage to the king, whose guards parted to let him pass. Just then Ashu pushed his way past the shaykhand fired a single shot, striking Abdullah in the head. The king was dead before he hit the floor. Abdullah's bodyguards returned fire recklessly. Not only was Ashu shot to death but more than twenty other worshippers were killed and another hundred wounded.

Ashu, a native of Jerusalem, was involved with a group of Palestinian activists from his neighbourhood. Along with the Old City, Abdullah had seized the West Bank of the Jordan River during Israel's war of independence in 1948--1949. Most of the Arab world had earmarked the West Bank for a Palestinian homeland, but Abdullah's goal was to expand Jordan to take in all of the former British mandate of Palestine. When he realized that he could not conquer Israel by force, Abdullah entered into secret negotiations with it. Details of these talks were leaked to radicals in Egypt and the former Palestine. When word reached members of Ashu's group, they decided to act.

Jordanian negotiations with Israel died with Abdullah. Police quickly rounded up the other conspirators. Ashu's neighbourhood qabaday(boss), Abid Ukah, along with a cattle breeder, a butcher and a café owner, were quickly tried, without a chance to give testimony, and executed. The group was described as "professional terrorists and assassins," but no record of any previous terrorist activity was produced. Abdullah al-Tall, formerly Jordan's military governor in Jerusalem, and the person who revealed the existence of the secret negotiations with Israel, fled to Cairo, where he made known his participation in the plot against Abdullah. Egypt refused to extradite him to Jordan.

Some have speculated that the authority behind Abdullah's assassination came from Egypt, but a lack of evidence, along with Egypt's refusal to co-operate with the investigation, brought the subject to an end. Abdullah was succeeded by his son Talal, but within a year Talal, due to mental instability, was forced to abdicate in favour of his own son, Hussein. The Book of Assassins: "A Biographical Dictionary from Ancient Times to the Present" by George Fetherling

So Nabhani took part in a failed coup attempt that ended with the murder of the king, and he was never punished? I believe that an earlier article mentioned that he spent time in jail. Here btw is a picture of Abdullah Tal (?) Kfar Etzion massacre --BirgerLangkjer 12:23, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Is it really neccessary to have 'son of' repeated so many times in the opening sentence "His full name is Sheikh Muhammad Taqiuddin bin (son of) Ibrahim, bin (son of) Mustafah, bin (son of) Ismail, bin (son of) Yusuf al-Nabhani." of background section? Xanin 13:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To whom it may concern, I have removed the second batch of graffiti from this entry in the past couple of weeks. The most recent batch was from IP address 135.196.109.101 which is registered to the London office of Christian Aid.

Name Transcription

Since the letter nun belongs to the solar letters class, I think the Arabic name should be rendered Taqiuddin an-Nabhani.