Raghib al-Nashashibi

Raghib al-Nashashibi (1881–1951) was a Palestinian politician who served as mayor of Jerusalem from 1920 to 1935 and became the leading figure of the National Defence Party, the principal rival camp to the Husayni family in Mandate Palestine ^{1 2}.

He was born in Jerusalem — the English article and Wikidata give 1881, the Arabic article 1880 — into the Nashashibi family, and studied engineering at Istanbul University. He worked as the Jerusalem district engineer and sat in the Ottoman General Assembly from 1914 to 1918 ^{1 2}.

In 1920 the British High Commissioner appointed him mayor of Jerusalem in succession to Musa Kazim al-Husayni, whom the British had dismissed after the Nabi Musa riots. He held the mayoralty until 1935, winning re-election in 1927 but losing his council seat in 1934 to Hussein al-Khalidi. He was a founding member of the Arab Higher Committee, led the National Defence Party, and, the English article records, secretly favoured union with Transjordan in 1937 as a counterweight to Amin al-Husseini. He fled to Egypt in 1948, later returned to the West Bank, held Jordanian ministerial posts, and died of illness in April 1951 — at the Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem according to the English article, while Wikidata gives Jordan as the place of death ¹.

Neither article states his religion, and Wikidata's single structured value gives Islam. His affiliation is therefore recorded as unknown ^{1 3}.