Sulayman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Sheikh Sulayman al-Taji Faruqi (Arabic: سليمان التاجي الفاروقي born in 1882 and died in 1958) was a Palestinian politician, writer and poet often referred to as the Palestinian Al-Maʿarri. He was one of the founders of the "Ottoman National Party" in 1911, and the founder of the "Islamic University" newspaper in 1933. He was known for his strong opposition to the leadership of Hajj Muhammad Amin Al-Husseini.

Life Sulayman Abdul Majeed al-Taji al-Farouqi was born in the city of Ramla, Palestine, in 1882, and his father was Abdul Majeed Al-Taji. Some sources mention that he had a brother named Shukri, and a son named Harith.

After WWI, al-Farouqi returned to Palestine and wrote a number of articles in the "Palestine" newspaper in 1911. One of his articles, entitled "The Danger of Zionism", was the reason behind the censoring of the newspaper. In it he wrote: "You must first be patriotic to your country, and secondly loyal to the Ottomans". Similarly, he had criticized the Ottoman authority for its allowance of Jewish immigration to Palestine.

He founded the "Ottoman National Party" in 1911, but Jamal Pasha deported him to Konya with his brother Shukri. This was due to their opposition to the seizure of agricultural crops which would have been used to supply the army.

Sulayman wrote several poems, including "The First Plane Downfall Over Jaffa," (Arabic: سقوط أول طائرة فوق يافا) which he wrote in 1912 after the first Ottoman plane crashed over the shore of Jaffa.

He later returned to Egypt and joined the French Institute of Law and obtained a doctorate in law in 1919. He headed the Amman Conference in October 1948, and then participated in the Jericho Conference in December 1948, in which King Abdullah I bin Al-Hussein was crowned, and he agreed to annex the West Bank of the Jordan River to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Death Sulayman did not stay for long in the Senate, as he died in Jericho in 1958 AD (1378 Hijri) at the age of 76, and was buried in the Bab al-Rahma cemetery east Lion's Gate in Jerusalem.