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Abdullah I of Jordan

Abdullah I bin Hussein (2 February 1882 – 20 July 1951) was the second son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali, by his first wife Abdiyya bint Abdullah, and the founder of the Emirate of Transjordan and then of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, its first king, known as the Founder King. Deputy for Mecca in the Ottoman parliament (1909–1914), he commanded the Arab Eastern Army in the Great Arab Revolt, besieging Taif and Medina; proclaimed King of Iraq by the Iraqi Congress in 1920, he refused that crown, founded the emirate at Amman on 11 April 1921, ruled as Emir until independence made him king on 25 May 1946, annexed the West Bank in 1950, and kept a court where literary salons flourished, being himself a poet. He was assassinated at the entrance of al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem during Friday prayers by a Palestinian gunman, and was succeeded by his son Talal.

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