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League of Nations commission on the Western Wall (1930)

لجنة حائط البراق الدولية (1930)

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Jerusalem

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.

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The Prophetic Era
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Levant & Iraq
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192019301940
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Jerusalem

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A commission the League of Nations Council formed on 14 January 1930, after the August 1929 disturbances over the Western Wall of the Haram al-Sharif, to settle Muslim and Jewish rights there. Three non-British members sat under former Swedish foreign minister Elias Löfgren; it worked in Jerusalem June–July 1930 and ruled unanimously that December: the Wall is part of the Haram esplanade, Muslim-owned as a waqf, while the status quo of Jewish prayer there is preserved. 'Imara's book prints the report's text 1 and reads it as testimony to the Islamic waqf right in the Wall 2.

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Buraq Wall disturbances (1929)
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Jerusalem

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Buraq Wall disturbances (1929)· 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

  1. Jerusalem between Judaism and Islam — Muhammad Imara , p. 66-70
  2. Jerusalem between Judaism and Islam — Muhammad Imara , p. 66
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Buraq Wall disturbances (1929)

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.