Le roi Hussein de Jordanie un chef de guerre religieux ?

Abstract

As sovereign of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Hussein bin Talal was custodianship of Jerusalem Muslim holy sites ; he was also the forty-second generation direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. However, King Hussein behaved by no means as a leader both religious and political, like a caliph. On the contrary, he acted as a modern and pragmatic monarch even if the debuts of his reign were marked by a certain Arab nationalist ideal born of the « Arab Uprising “in which had participated his grandfather and led by his great-grandfather the Sharif Hussein. The Muslim religion represented for him a form of life which implied duties, in particular serving his people and country. He never gave to the Arab-Israeli conflict a theological dimension, excluding the opponent for belonging to another religion or another race. Hussein led his country through four turbulent decades of the Arab–Israeli conflict and the Cold War, successfully balancing pressures from Arab nationalists, Western countries, and Israel, transforming Jordan by the end of his 46-year reign to a stable modern state.