Abdul Hakim Murad (Arab nationalist)
Palestinian Arab lawyer, poet, writer, and nationalist thinker (1910–1982)
Abdul Hakim Murad (Arabic: عبد الحكيم مراد) (1910–1982) was a Palestinian-Syrian lawyer, poet, writer, and political activist, regarded as one of the early Arab nationalist thinkers. Active in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, and Kuwait, he played a key role in Arab nationalist movements, including the founding of al-Ḥaraka al-Yaʿrubiyya (the Arabist Movement), and made significant contributions to modern Arab political thought and literature. He also advocated for women’s liberation and broader social reform, shaping political and intellectual discourse in the Arab world during the mid-20th century.
Early life and education
Murad was born in Hasbaya, Lebanon, in 1910, to a family originally from Gaza. His father, Muhammad Saʿid Murad al-ʿAwadhi al-Ḥusayni al-Ghāzī, was a jurist who studied at Al-Azhar in Cairo and later served as a professor of civil law in Beirut.
In December 1918, he signed the Memorandum of Protest of the Exiled Palestinians to the Peace Conference and the British Foreign Office on Zionism and the Situation in Palestine. The petition, endorsed by exiled Muslim and Christian Palestinians, rejected Zionist claims in Palestine and appealed to the Allies for justice. The document is preserved in Wathāʾiq al-Qadiyya al-Filasṭīniyya (Documents of the Palestinian Question), vol. 1, compiled by Nāhiḍ Zuqūt (2003).
He later represented Gaza in the Syrian Arab Congress (1919–1920), where he supported women’s suffrage.
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