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Husayn

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Hu·sain or Hu·sayn  (h-sn)
See Hussein.
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Noun1.HusaynHusayn - Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran; his invasion of Kuwait led to the Gulf War (born in 1937)
2.Husayn - king of Jordan credited with creating stability at home and seeking peace with Israel (1935-1999)


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Writing in the same edition of Asharq al-Awsat, a suspicious Husayn Shabakshi asked, "How is it possible for the current Iraqi government to persuade its partisans among the sectarian militias which serve under it that it is a government for all Iraqis while it is bent on specifically provoking the sentiments of Sunnis in a clear and intentional manner?
Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i, al-Mizan fi-Tafsir al-Qur'an (Beirut: al-Mu'assasa al-'Alami, 1383/1964) II, 395.
Menas was what Voile calls "a complete figure"; he had been soldier, hermit, and martyr, was internationally recognized, was venerated by both Christians and Muslims, and was in fact a national figure referred to by the Egyptian nationalist leader Ahmad Husayn in 1929 as a national hero who had resisted oppressors.
 
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