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This article investigates the place of Jerusalem in the interwar Pan-Islamic movement through a discussion of the history of how the city came to host the World Islamic Congress of 1931. Arguing against the conventional view that the congress was an unproductive diversion for the Palestinian national movement, it considers how the congress both promoted the Palestinian cause to the wider Muslim world and how it represented Jerusalem’s successful integration into interwar Islamic political networks. The imperial context is also considered at length, not only in terms of the imperial power’s treatment of Pan-Islamism but also in terms of how imperial connections helped the conference’s co-organizers Hajj Amin al-Husayni, the mufti of Jerusalem, and Shawkat ‘Ali, a leading Indian Pan-Islamist connect across national borders.
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