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Also Known As ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Hāshimī
Born January 30, 1962 (age 63) • Amman • Jordan
Title / Office king (1999-), Jordan
House / Dynasty Hāshimite
Notable Family Members spouse Rania al-Abdullah • father Ḥussein
Role In two-state solution

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Yasser Arafat
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Palestinian leader
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon
prime minister of Israel
Barak, Ehud
Ehud Barak
prime minister of Israel
Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin
prime minister of Israel
Glubb, Sir John Bagot
Sir John Bagot Glubb
British army officer
ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
Muḥammad I Askia
Songhai ruler
Maḥmūd Ghāzān
Maḥmūd Ghāzān
Mongol ruler of Persia
King Hussein of Jordan
Hussein
king of Jordan
Queen Noor
Queen Noor
queen of Jordan
Rania al-Abdullah
Rania al-Abdullah
queen of Jordan
Saʿid al-Mufti
prime minister of Jordan
John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg
American clergyman and politician
Frederick Middleton
Canadian general
Murtala Ramat Mohammed
head of state of Nigeria
Philippe-Emmanuel Gondi
French military commander
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Heydar Aliyev
president of Azerbaijan
Isaac Stevens
governor of Washington Territory, United States
Walter Campbell Short
United States Army officer

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