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他叫谢里夫·侯赛因·本·阿里(Sharif Hussein bin Ali),麦加的第78任埃米尔,侯赛因·本·塔拉勒的曾祖父。他即位之际,正值奥斯曼上耳其分崩离析之时。一战当中,土耳其人选择与德国结盟的同时,谢里夫·侯赛因则在和英国方面进行秘密磋商。他想利用英方的威势为阿拉伯人争取独立。1916年,双方终于谈妥了条件:谢里夫·侯赛因答应帮助协约国出兵阻击土耳其军,换取英国方面对于一个新兴阿拉伯国家的承认。
Sharif Hussein bin Ali, the seventy-eighth emir of Mecca and the great-grandfather of Jordan’s King Hussein, came to power as the Ottomans were lurching toward collapse.
The Turkish conquerors permitted limited self-rule in Mecca, allowing the Hashemites to retain control of the city’s holy sites in a tradition dating back to the tenth century. Then, early in the twentieth century, came a Hashemite whose ambition and audacity would alter the family's destiny and redraw the boundaries of the Middle East.
The first caliphs, who were viewed as successors to the Prophet Muhammad, ruled from Damascus and Baghdad. They were supplanted in time by the Ottoman Turks, who expanded the Islamic Empire and established an Ottoman Caliphate under the supervision of powerful sultans in Istanbul.
It is true that no country called Jordan existed—and, likewise, no group of people called Jordanians—until the early twentieth century. For a thousand years, the arid lands east of the Jordan River were part of Islamic empires, or caliphates, that at times extended from North Africa to the Balkans and encompassed all of the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant.
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他叫谢里夫·侯赛因·本·阿里(Sharif Hussein bin Ali),麦加的第78任埃米尔,侯赛因·本·塔拉勒的曾祖父。他即位之际,正值奥斯曼上耳其分崩离析之时。一战当中,土耳其人选择与德国结盟的同时,谢里夫·侯赛因则在和英国方面进行秘密磋商。他想利用英方的威势为阿拉伯人争取独立。1916年,双方终于谈妥了条件:谢里夫·侯赛因答应帮助协约国出兵阻击土耳其军,换取英国方面对于一个新兴阿拉伯国家的承认。