Abdullah ibn Hussein (b. 1880, d. 20 July 1951). Emir of Transjordan 1921–48, King of Transjordan/Jordan 1948–51 Son of Hussein ibn Ali , Sherif of Mecca, with his brother Faisal he led the Arab Revolt of 1916. In 1921 he was made Emir of the province of Transjordan, a territory created by the Sykes–Picot Agreement and made a British protectorate in 1923. He spent the next decades creating a sense of identity and unity in his quite arbitrarily defined kingdom, ...