Pan-Arabism was first pressed by Sharif Hussein ibn Ali, the Sharif of Mecca, who sought independence for the Mashreq Arabs from the Ottoman Empire, and the establishment of a unified Arab state in the Mashreq.

This character was, however, almost certainly named after Sharif Ali ibn Hussein, a leader in the Harith tribe, who played a part in the Revolt and is mentioned and pictured in T. E.

* c. 1010 — Avicenna ( Abu Ali al Hussein ibn Abdallah ibn Sina ) published The Canon of Medicine ( Kitab al-Qanun fi al-tibb ), in which he introduces clinical trials and clinical pharmacology, and which remains an authoritative text in European medical education up until the 17th century.

Muhammed's grandson Hussein ibn Ali named one of his daughters Sakina.

The two most significant decisions of the conference were to offer the throne of Iraq to Emir Faisal ibn Hussein ( who became Faisal I of Iraq ) and an emirate of Transjordan ( now Jordan ) to his brother Abdullah ibn Hussein ( who became Abdullah I of Jordan ).

The conference provided the political blueprint for British administration in both Iraq and Transjordan, and in offering these two regions to the sons of Sharif Hussein ibn Ali of the Hedjaz, Churchill stated that the spirit, if not the letter, of Britain's wartime promises to the Arabs might be fulfilled.

Although Elwell-Sutton accepted that the family were Sayyids descended from the seventh Imam Musa al-Kadhim, the great-greatgrandson of Hussein ibn Ali, who was the younger son of the marriage of Fatimah ( the daughter of the Prophet ) and Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, he considered this an " undistinguished lineage " with no special sanctity because " Sayyids proliferate throughout the Islamic world, in all walks of society and on both sides of every religious and political fence.

In 1916, Sharif Hussein ibn Ali proclaimed himself king of an independent Hejaz, as a result of the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence.

Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi, ( Fayṣal ibn Ḥusayn ; 20 May 1885 – 8 September 1933 ) was for a short time King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria or Greater Syria in 1920, and was King of the Kingdom of Iraq ( today Iraq ) from 23 August 1921 to 1933.

Abdullah I bin al-Hussein, King of Jordan Allāh ibn al-Husayn ( February 1882 – 20 July 1951 ) ( Arabic ) عبد الله الأول بن الحسين born in Mecca, Hejaz, Ottoman Empire, ( in modern-day Saudi Arabia ) was the second of three sons of Sherif Hussein bin Ali, Sharif and Emir of Mecca and his first wife Abdiyya bint Abdullah ( d. 1886 ).

* Collar of the Order of Hussein ibn Ali of Jordan-1960

Karbala is famous as the site of the martyrdom of Hussein ibn Ali ( Imam Hussein ), and commemorations are held by millions of Shias annually to remember it.

* It is narrated from Imam Jafar Sadiq that: " The earth of the pure and holy grave of Hussein ibn Ali is a pure and blessed musk.

There are many references in books in films to " Karbala ", generally referring to Hussein ibn Ali's death at the Battle of Karbala.

In 1921 the British decided that it would be prudent to set up an Arab government in Iraq and chose Faisal ibn Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi, the son of Sharif Hussein, to be King.

During the First World War he was converted to the Arab nationalist cause and fought in the Arab Revolt under Emir Faisal ibn Hussein of the Hijaz, who would later reign briefly as king of Syria before becoming king of Iraq.

* In the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz ( later merged into present-day Saudi Arabia ), the sole Vizier was ( 10 June 1916-3 October 1924 ) the future second king Ali ibn Hussein al-Hashimi, under his father Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi ( the first to assume the title Malik, i. e. King, instead of Grand Sharif ), maintained after the assumption of the Caliphal style ( only 11 March 1924-3 October 1924 )

* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.

Henry McMahon had exchanged letters with Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca in 1915, in which he had promised Hussein control of Arab lands with the exception of " portions of Syria " lying to the west of " the districts of Damascus, Homs, Hama and Aleppo ".

The monarchy was deposed and an Iraqi-backed puppet leader named Alaa Hussein Ali was installed as head of the " Provisional Government of Free Kuwait.

Hussein bin Ali revolted against the Ottoman Empire from Mecca, and it was the first city captured by his forces in the Battle of Mecca ( 1916 ).

They view Hussein as the defender of Islam from annihilation at the hands of Yazid I. Hussein is the last imam following Ali whom all Shia sub-branches mutually recognise.

The Al-Anfal Campaign was a genocidal campaign against the Kurdish people ( and many others ) in Iraqi Kurdistan led by the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein and headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid.

* June 4 – Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Arab nationalist

Ali bin Hussein, the Sharif of Mecca and leader of the Hashemite clan, revolted against the caliph in Istanbul and sided with Great Britain.

After the First World War, the Hashemite Sayyid Hussein bin Ali was proclaimed King of an independent Hejaz, but soon after, in 1924, he was defeated by Ibn Saud, who integrated Medina and the whole of the Hejaz into the modern kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

January 18: Faisal-Weizmann Agreement between Emir Faisal ( son of the King of Hejaz, Sharif of Mecca Sayyid Hussein bin Ali ), and Chaim Weizmann ( later President of the World Zionist Organization ).

These groups came under the umbrella of the " Council for the Islamic Revolution ", which was supervised by Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, the designated heir of Ayatollah Khomeini.

Tensions between Bahrain and Iran had already been raised in the summer of 2007, when Hossein Shariatmadari, an Advisor to Iran ’ s supreme leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and editor of the Iranian newspaper, Kayan, called for Bahrain to be incorporated into Iran as its 14th province – a stance that echoed Saddam Hussein ’ s designs on Kuwait in the late 1980s.

*** His Royal Highness Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan ( born 1975 ).

On August 21, 2006, the trial of Saddam Hussein and six codefendants, including Hassan al-Majid (" Chemical Ali "), opened on charges of genocide against the Kurds.

Lawrence, Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca led the successful revolt which contributed to the Ottoman defeat and breaking up of its Empire.

The British Foreign Office had previously begun to support Sharif Hussein bin Ali, Emir of the Hejaz by seconding Lawrence of Arabia to him in 1915.

Abdülaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876 ; his death at Feriye Palace in Constantinople a few days later was attributed to suicide at the time, although in Sultan Abdulhamid II's recently surfaced memoirs, the event is described as an assassination by the order of Hussein Avni Pasha and Midhat Pasha.

Hussein learned of the agreement when it was leaked by the new Russian government in December 1917, but was satisfied by two disingenuous telegrams from Sir Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner of Egypt, assuring him that the British government's commitments to the Arabs were still valid and that the Sykes-Picot Agreement was not a formal treaty.

According to Isaiah Friedman, Hussein was not perturbed by the Balfour Declaration and on 23 March 1918, in Al Qibla, the daily newspaper of Mecca, with Hussein writing:

Hogarth reported that Hussein " would not accept an independent Jewish State in Palestine, nor was I instructed to warn him that such a state was contemplated by Great Britain ".

* 1997 – Hussein Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt.

He was replaced by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces headed by Field Marshall Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, which dissolved the Parliament of Egypt, suspended the Constitution of Egypt, and promised free, open presidential and parliamentary elections before the year's end and within six months.

It is headed by Field Marshall Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.

He was succeeded by Datuk Hussein Onn, the son of UMNO ’ s founder Onn Jaafar, and then by Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad, who had been Education Minister since 1981, and who held power for 22 years.

< Blockquote > The supreme decision-making bodies of the Hezbollah were divided between the Majlis al-Shura ( Consultative Assembly ) which was headed by 12 senior clerical members with responsibility for tactical decisions and supervision of overall Hizballah activity throughout Lebanon, and the Majlis al-Shura al-Karar ( the Deciding Assembly ), headed by Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah and composed of eleven other clerics with responsibility for all strategic matters.

The Republic was controlled by Saddam Hussein from 1979 to 2003, into which period falls into the war with Iran and the Gulf War.

Since 1980, the foreign relations of Iraq were influenced by a number of controversial decisions by the Saddam Hussein administration.

The false information he gave under torture by Egyptian authorities was cited by the George W. Bush Administration in the months preceding the 2003 invasion of Iraq as evidence of a connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.

* 2007 – Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.

* 1979 – Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.

* 2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.

* Leslie Caron, Une Française à Hollywood ( Mémoires ), ( translation: Anne-Marie Hussein ) published by Baker Street ( US ), 2011, ISBN 978-2-917559-16-1

" King Hussein of Jordan — the only leader of an Arab country to publicly denounce the Olympic attack — called it a " savage crime against civilization ... perpetrated by sick minds.