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by David G. Dalin (Author), John F. Rothmann (Author)

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A chilling, fascinating, and nearly forgotten historical figure is resurrected in a riveting work that links the fascism of the last century with the terrorism of our own. Written with verve and extraordinary access to primary sources in several languages, Icon of Evil is the definitive account of the man who during World War II was called “the führer of the Arab world” and whose ugly legacy lives on today.

In 1921, the beneficiary of an appointment the British would live to regret, Haj Amin al-Husseini became the mufti of Jerusalem, the most eminent and influential Islamic leader in the Middle East. For years, al-Husseini fomented violence in the region against the Jews he loathed and wished to destroy. Forced out in 1937, he eventually found his way to the country whose legions he desperately wished to join: Nazi Germany.

Here, with new and disturbing details, David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann show how al-Husseini ingratiated himself with his hero, Adolf Hitler, becoming, with his blonde hair and blue eyes, an “honorary Aryan,” while dreaming of being installed Nazi leader of the Middle East. Al-Husseini would later recruit more than 100,000 Muslims in Europe to fight in divisions of the Waffen-SS, and obstruct negotiations with the Allies that might have allowed four thousand Jewish children to escape to Palestine. Some believe that al-Husseini even inspired Hitler to implement the Final Solution. At war’s end, al-Husseini escaped indictment at Nuremberg and was harbored in France before being given a hero’s welcome in Egypt.

Icon of Evil chronicles al-Husseini’s postwar relationships with such influential Islamic figures as the radical theoretician Sayyid Qutb and Saddam Hussein’s powerful uncle, General Khairallah Talfah, and his crucial mentoring of the young Yasser Arafat. Finally, it provides compelling evidence that al-Husseini’s actions and writings serve as inspirations today to the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations pledged to destroy Israel and the United States.
Revelatory and unsettling, Icon of Evil reveals an essential character in the worst crimes of the modern era. It is an important addition to our understanding of the past, present, and future of radical Islam.

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240 pages
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English
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Random House
Publication date

June 24, 2008
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5.92 x 0.95 x 9.51 inches
ISBN-10

1400066530
ISBN-13

978-1400066537
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In the last century, Arab peoples have frequently fared poorly under leaders chosen by or foisted upon them, including Egypt’s Nasser, Syria’s Assad, and Iraq’s Hussein. Among the most destructive of these was Haj Amin al-Husseini, who dominated Palestinian politics for several critical decades of the twentieth century. This account of the life and career of al-Husseini is interesting and disturbing but hardly balanced. If the authors’ goal is to show the venality of their subject and the tragic consequences for Palestinians, they succeed admirably. As Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, al-Husseini maintained his personal and family powers like a gangster. His nationalist aspirations manifested themselves in the form of rabid Jew baiting that went far beyond opposition to Zionism, and the authors conclusively show how he promoted the extermination of Jews while he resided in Hitler’s Germany. However, their effort to link al-Husseini to the rise of contemporary radical Islam is unconvincing. Still, this is a useful work that helps explain the sad legacy of Palestinian political life. --Jay Freeman

About the Author

David G. Dalin is the Taube Research Fellow in American History at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the author, co-author, or editor of nine books, including Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience (with Jonathan D. Sarna), The Presidents of the United States and the Jews, and The Myth of Hitler’s Pope. His numerous articles and book reviews have appeared in American Jewish History, Commentary, First Things, The Weekly Standard, and the American Jewish Year Book.

John F. Rothmann serves on the faculty of the Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco. He is an author, teacher, archivist, political consultant, and talk show host on the ABC-affiliated KGO 810-AM Newstalk Radio in San Francisco. He has lectured on American politics and the presidency and the Middle East throughout the United States, Canada, and Israel.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House; 1st edition (June 24, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1400066530
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1400066537
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.92 x 0.95 x 9.51 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,800,032 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #944 in Egyptian History (Books)
- #1,684 in Historical Middle East Biographies
- #2,372 in Israel & Palestine History (Books)

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Howard Hoffman

Please read this book

Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2016

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I had no idea the extent to which the Mufti was responsible for so much evil within the Middle East. He led his own people, the Palestinians, to a very dark future, one that they still suffer from today. He could have led the Palestinians to a shared prosperous future alongside a Jewish state, Israel. Instead, he sided with Hitler in trying to destroy all of the Jews of the Middle East. Everyone interested in the Middle East needs to read this book. Very well written and well documented.

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Bob Jenkins

Dalin is spot on...

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2019

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While Dalin takes some liberty with literary license throughout the big book, i.e., offering the muses of the mufti without documentiige, his portrayal of al-Husseini it's spot on. The evidence against al-Husseini's vision and efforts to pmote radical Islam worldwide is irrefutable. Dalin's roadmap from al-Husseini to Osama bin Laden, including others such as Arafat, Abbas,

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Ethan Cooke

Great read! Sheds light on an unknown aspect of ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2017

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Great read! Sheds light on an unknown aspect of the Holocaust and the hatred in the Mideast today.

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Frank Miller

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A fascinating piece not so well known history.

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great book delivered quickly

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James Westgate

The journey from Hitler to ISIS

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Extremely powerful book. Gives excellent historical background on the birth of the radical Islamic movements that are creating chaos in our world today. The behind the scenes of the alliance of Hitler with the Arab world is something very few people know about. Excellent read.

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K R Fulton

A very interesting part of the World War II era ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2015

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A very interesting part of the World War II era that I was unaware of. Author does take a few liberties, but the accurate content is what is really interesting.

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Ariel Johanna Cohen

Valuable Historical Source

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Very well researched and valuable source!!

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Charles Soper

Chilling revelations, references should have been more direct

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 23, 2008

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A proof of the bridge formed between old and new anti-Semitism in the person of Mohammed Amin Al-Husseini. Jew hatred has mutated from racist genocide to blinkered anti Israel prejudice. The authors depict the principal agent of this transformation the Grand Mufti of Palestine, President of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine, and a chief instrument in the convening of the World Islamic Congress.

Al-Husseini was a close associate of Himmler, Eichmann, and von Ribbetrop, held an audience with Hitler on 28th September 1941, acted as Nazi arabic radio propagandist for 3 years from Berlin, influenced Nazi policy, for example of Jewish escape from the slaughter, and the formation of the Bosnian Muslim Waffen-SS corps responsible for the murder of 12,600 Bosnian Jews. He was reported by Eichmann aide Dieter Wisliceny to have visited Auschwitz, and to have incited systematic extermination. On 21/9/44 he broadcast of '11 M Jews in Europe', he knew this represented a deficit of 6M.

There is much more to shock and surprise in this short but potent volume, especially the Mufti's legacy to Arafat, Saddam Hussein's uncle and his links with Qutb father of the Brotherhood.

One is lead to wonder repeatedly why such plain and profound evils are so little discussed or so little known, and the reasons are not hard to find in the text.

Eye opening as it is, there are two flaws in its testimony. First there is too much speculation about the Mufti's thought life, conversations and attitudes - a more clinical, less ornamented account would have been wiser. Second the references are almost entirely from secondary sources, even quotes from Mein Kampf (hardly the most difficult book to reference) or the most seminal of events to the book the audience with the Fuhrer (though the translated text of the German minutes of the meeting and the Mufti's diary are in the appendices). This considerably weakens the polemical value of the work, nevertheless a vital and valuable resource for students of the Middle East.

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Massimo

chiave per capire il presente

Reviewed in Italy on March 15, 2015

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Molto interessante per capire come l'antisemitismo abbia attecchito e si sia perpetuato nella cultura araba e palestinese. Ma anche per capire l'odore di nazismo che emana da alcune culture politiche arabe.

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