Buraq Wall disturbances (1929)

Name: Buraq Wall disturbances (1929)
Start: 1929-08

اضطرابات حائط البراق (1929)

August 1929 CE · Rabi' I 1348 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

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Disturbances in Palestine in August 1929 over the Buraq Wall, known in Arab usage as the Buraq revolt; the Mandate government set up an inquiry, and the British government then asked the League of Nations for an international commission. Source: Imara's book, one source only.

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Era: The Prophetic Era
Region: Levant & Iraq
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Disturbances in Palestine in August 1929 over the Buraq Wall, known in Arab usage as the Buraq revolt; the Mandate government set up an inquiry commission, then the British government asked the League of Nations to form an international commission ¹².

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Occurred at: Jerusalem
Led to: League of Nations commission on the Western Wall (1930)

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League of Nations commission on the Western Wall (1930)· Jerusalem· Masjid Al-Aqsa· al-Haram al-Sharif (the Temple Mount esplanade)· Dome of the Rock· Mosque of Omar· The Western Wall (Buraq Wall)· Arson at al-Aqsa Mosque (1969)

Sources

Jerusalem between Judaism and Islam — Muhammad Imara , p. 65
Jerusalem between Judaism and Islam — Muhammad Imara , p. 67

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League of Nations commission on the Western Wall (1930)

A commission set up by the League of Nations Council on 14 January 1930 after the August 1929 disturbances over the Western Wall of the Haram al-Sharif, to settle Muslim and Jewish claims there; three non-British members led by former Swedish foreign minister Eliel Lofgren. It sat in Jerusalem in June and July 1930 and its unanimous decision of December 1930 held the wall part of the Haram and Muslim waqf property, and kept the status quo for Jewish worship there. Imara's book reprints the report and reads it as proof of Muslim ownership; the reading is the book's own.