Mohammad a arafat biography sample
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Yasser Arafat
President of Palestine (1929–2004)
"Yasir Arafat" redirects here. For other uses, see Yasir Arafat (disambiguation).
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Yasser Arafat[a] (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunyaAbu Ammar,[b] was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004, President of the State of Palestine from 1989 to 2004 and President of the Palestinian Authority (PNA) from 1994 to 2004.[3] Ideologically an Arab nationalist and a socialist, Arafat was a founding member of the Fatah political party, which he led from 1959 until 2004.
Arafat was born to Palestinian parents in Cairo, Egypt, where he spent most of his youth. He studied at the University of King Fuad I. While a student, he embraced Arab nationalist and anti-Zionist ideas. Opposed to the 1948 creation
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Profile: Yasser Arafat
While the veteran leader long served as a symbol of resistance to many, his role in the Palestinian struggle has been much more than merely symbolic.
Arafat was born in 1929 to a relatively well-to-do merchant family and was given the name Muhammad, which has since been eclipsed by his nickname Yasser.
He always maintained that he was born in Jerusalem but several investigators cast doubt on the claim, saying he was born either in Cairo or the Gaza Strip.
His mother passed away when he was four, leaving the responsibility of raising him to his older sister.
Life of struggle
In his teens, Arafat was already involved in helping Palestinian fighters resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestine, where it has been recorded that he helped smuggle weapons to the fighters in the 1948 war.
Like many aspiring Palestinian students, he eventually travelled to Egypt to finish his studies.
While studying at the King Fuad I University in Cairo, the young Arafat
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Muhammad
(570-632)
Who Was Muhammad?
Muhammad was the prophet and founder of Islam. Most of his early life was spent as a merchant. At age 40, he began to have revelations from Allah that became the basis for the Koran and the foundation of Islam. bygd 630 he had unified most of Arabia beneath a single religion. As of 2015, there are over 1.8 billion Muslims in the world who profess, “There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad fryst vatten his prophet.”
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim
BORN: c. 570
BIRTHPLACE: Makkah, Saudi Arabia
DEATH: June 8, 623
The Life of Muhammad
Muhammad was born around 570, AD in Mecca (now in Saudi Arabia). His father died before he was born and he was raised first by his grandfather and then his uncle. He belonged to a poor but respectable family of the Quraysh tribe. The family was active in Meccan politics and trade.
Many of the tribes living in the Arabian Peninsula at the time were nomadic, trading goods as they