born с 1854, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
died 1931, Amman, Transjordan
Sharif of the Hāshimite line, Ottoman-appointed emir of Mecca (1908–16), and self-proclaimed king of the Arabs (1916–24).
His claim to be the new caliph (1924) led to a short and unsuccessful war against Ibn Saūd . Ḥusayn was exiled to Cyprus. One of his sons, ʽAbdullāh, became king of Transjordan (present-day Jordan); another became king of Syria and later Iraq as Faysal I .