Sa'id al-Mufti

Sa'id al-Mufti (26 June 1898 – 25 March 1989) was a Jordanian politician and diplomat of Circassian origin who served three terms as Prime Minister of Jordan between 1950 and 1956, as the English article records, with the Arabic article adding that he was of the Habjoka family of the Kabarday tribe and one of the leaders of Jordan who helped found and sustain it. ^{1 2} He hosted the Emir Abdullah at his house for several days on his arrival from the Hejaz in 1921 and remained a supporter of Abdullah, of his son King Talal and then of King Hussein. ²

Al-Mufti was born in Amman in 1898 and died and was buried there in 1989, in the Arabic article's account; the English article dates the birth to 26 June 1898 and the death to 25 March 1989, while Wikidata's day-precision birth statement gives 28 June 1898 — a two-day conflict the museum states rather than merges. ^{2 1 3} He was a son of Circassian migrants who had settled in Amman and helped build a modern Jordan; he was first taught in the kuttabs and then went to Damascus to complete his studies at the Sultaniyya school, but his father's death in 1917 forced him to cut his studies short and return to Jordan to care for his family. ² Known for strength of character, honesty and loyalty, he began political and social activity young and was elected to the Consultative Council at the age of twenty. ²

In 1920, answering the call of King Faisal bin Hussein, al-Mufti led, with Mirza Pasha, a force of a thousand of the finest Circassian youth to Syria to fight the French; by the time they arrived they learned the outcome of the Battle of Maysalun and returned to Amman. ² He was a co-founder of the Jordan People's Party in March 1927, and he backed the Emir Abdullah and worked with him, continuing after Abdullah became king. ² He served as interior minister in several terms (1944–1945, 1948–1950, 1951–1953 and 1957) and as Minister of Finance in 1945, and as deputy prime minister, deputy in parliament and member of the Senate. ^{1 2} As prime minister — the ninth to hold the office — the English article counts three terms between 14 April 1950 and 1 July 1956, where the Arabic article counts four governments formed, two commissioned by King Abdullah I and two by King Hussein, between 1950 and 1955; the museum gives both counts as they stand. ^{1 2} Of the Senate, the English article dates his presidencies from December 1956 to July 1963 and from November 1965 to November 1974, while the Arabic article says he headed the Senate six times. ^{1 2} He retired in 1974 and lived privately until his death in 1989; the Arabic article records that the killing of his son Azmi grieved him deeply, and that he counted him the dearest thing he had given to the homeland. ²

Al-Mufti lived in Jabal Amman, an affluent district of the capital, and his house became known for its unique architecture and was dubbed Al-Mufti House, in the English article's account. ¹ A street in Amman's Sweifieh area, where the Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina stands, was named after him. ¹ In 1965 Malaysia made him an Honorary Commander of the Order of the Defender of the Realm. ¹ The Arabic article numbers him among the leaders of Jordan and of the Circassians who contributed to founding the state and supporting its course, and places him at the head of those who received the Emir Abdullah on his arrival from the Hejaz in 1921. ²

This section is read as a presentation of positions reported from the sources, not as a verdict of the museum.

The sources differ in two places, which the museum states rather than merges: his birth day (26 June in the English article against Wikidata's day-precision 28 June, with the Arabic article giving the year only) and the count of his premierships (three terms in the English article against four governments formed in the Arabic). ^{1 3 2} His faith is recorded as unknown as to school in his data record, on a stronger ground than usual: no source read states a religion for him at all — neither article names one and the Wikidata item carries no religion value. His Circassian origin is an ethnicity, not an attestation, and a career in a Muslim-majority state is a milieu, which never counts; with no source naming a school for the man himself, the value stays unknown under the two-source rule and the doubt rule. ^{1 2 3}

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