'''Atassi''', also sometimes spelled Atasi, ([[Arabic]]: الأتاسي) is the name of a prominent family of notables in [[Homs]], [[Syria]] dating back to the 16th century AD.
== Background ==
Many Family members assumed prominent religious and political positions in [[Ottoman]], French, and Independent [[Syria]]. Family traditions and documents tell us that the name Al-Atassi evolved from the word "العطاسي " meaning "the sneezer" in Arabic which later changed to " الأطاسي" then to Atassi. The family is of a Hashemite-Husseini origin as is clear in many documented historical accounts from the Ottoman era. The ancestor of the family had moved between Yemen, Hijaz and Turkey before eventually establishing his presence in Homs sometime in the 16th century AD.
There are many family branches, but only two assumed new surnames: [[Al-Sayed Suleiman]] and Majaj, whereas the other branches continue to have the "Atassi" surname. The number of the family members had exceeded 2000 Atassis scattered all over the world.
Religious authority as [[Mufti]]s of [[Homs]], along with large land holdings in [[Homs]] formed the basis of the family's wealth and influence.
== Atassi Muftis of Homs ==
(Dates represent period served in that position)
1) Al-Shihab Ahmad Sham Al-Deen ibn Khalil Al-Atassi, the first. 1533-1596.
2) Mahmood ibn Ahmad Al-Atassi. Held position starting in 1596.
3)Ahmad ibn Mahmood Al-Atassi, the second. Held position until death in 1653.
4) Hasan ibn Mahmood Al-Atassi. Held postion starting in 1653.
5) Mohammad ibn Ahmad Al-Atassi, the first. Held position untill death in 1698.
6) Ali ibn Hasan Al-Atassi. Held position starting in 1703.
7) Abdul-Wahhab ibn Ali Al-Atassi. Mid 18th century, period not exactly knwon.
8) Burhan Al-Deen Ibraheem ibn Ali Al-Atassi. Late 18th century, period in Homs not known.
9) Abdul-Sattar ibn Ibraheem Al-Atassi. 1805-1829.
10) Saeed ibn Abdul-Sattar Al-Atassi. 1830-1854.
11) Mohammad Abu- Al-Fath ibn Abdul Sattar Al-Atassi, the second. 1852-1882.
12) Mohammad Khaled ibn Mohammad Al-Atassi. 1885-1894.
13) Abdul-Lateef ibn Mohammad Al-Atassi. 1894-1914
14) Mohammad Taher ibn M. Khaled Al-Atassi. 1914-1940.
15) Mohammad Tawfeeq ibn Abdul-Lateef Al-Atassi. 1940-1965.
16) Badr Al-Deen ibn Mahmood Al-Atassi. 1965-1966.
17) Mohammad Tayyeb ibn Abdul-Fattah Al-Atassi. 1966-1984.
Other members served as religious scholars in other capacities such as Judges, Chief Clerks, and Imams. One Mufti, Sayed Ibraheem Efendi Al-Atassi, also served as Mufti of [[Tripoli]] in the late 18th century. [[Taher Al-Atassi]] served as the supreme judge of [[Basrah]] of [[Iraq]], [[Nablus]] and [[Jerusalem]] in [[Palestine]] in the late Ottoman period.
Although members of Atassi family were naturally involved in the politics of the city of Homs by virtue of holding the Mufti position and by belonging to the class of [[notables]] and Ashraf, it was not until the late 1800s that they started holding non-religious governmental offices. Two scholars who held the position of [[Mufti]] also held political offices: [[Khaled Al-Atassi]] (1837-1908), and his son, [[Taher Al-Atassi]] (1860-1940). Sayed Khaled Efendi Al-Atassi was elected as a deputy of [[Homs]] and [[Hama]] in 1876 to the first Parliament of the [[Ottoman Empire]]. In 1922, Sayed Taher Efendi was elected to the membership of the Council of the Syrian Union as a representative of Homs in the state of [[Damascus]]. Other Atassis followed suit.
Further influence through education was achieved by a tradition of sending the young men of the family to be educated at the Imperial capital of Istanbul during the Ottoman administration, and then to the [[Sorbonne]] and other European centers of learning during the French Mandate.
== Atassi members elected to the parliament ==
(dates represent year elected)
1) [[Khaled Al-Atassi]], elected to the Ottoman parliament, 1876.
2) [[Hashem Al-Atassi]], 1919, 1928, 1932, 1936.
3) Wasfi Beik Al-Atassi, 1919.
4) Taher Efendi Al-Atassi, 1922.
5) Mukarram Al-Atassi, 1936, 1946.
6) Dr. Adnan Al-Atassi, 1943, 1947, 1954.
7) Hilmi Al-atassi, 1943, 1946.
8) [[Feidy Beik Al-Atassi]], 1947, 1949, 1954, 1961.
9) Dr. Showqi Al-Atassi, elected to the parliament of the [[United Arab Republic]], 1960.
10) Ibtisam Al-Sayed Suleiman Al-Atassi, 2003.
== Atassi Mayors of Homs ==
1) Hasan Al-Atassi, late 1800s.
2) Najeeb Atassi, 1879.
3) Omar Beik Al-Atassi, 1912.
4) Mohammad Al-Atassi, 1920-1930.
5) Feidy Beik Al-Atassi, 1931-1945.
6) Mukarram Al-Atassi, 1950s.
7) Qasem Al-Atassi, 1954-1957.
Members of the family lead the national movement against the French mandate. The power and prestige of the family reached an apex at the formation of the modern Republic of Syria in 1936, when its second Head of State, [[Hashim al-Atassi]] was elected president. Two out of the seven members of the constitutional assembly who drafted the first constitution of [[Syria]] in 1919 included two prominent Atassis: Wasfi Beik and Hashem Beik Al-Atassi. Two more scions, [[Luai al-Atassi]] and [[Nureddin al-Atassi]], were in turn installed as heads of state in the 1960s. There were also several magistrates, governors, ambassadors, heads of political parties, military officers and other public officials in the ranks of the family throughout Ottoman and modern times.
[[Category: Politics of Syria]]
[[Category: Surnames]]
'''Sayed Suleiman''' is a large branch of the well-known [[Atassi]] (Atasi) family of [[Homs]], Syria. The family descends from Sayed Suleiman Chalabi son of Sayed Abdullah Al-Atassi, a prominent religious figure in the 18th century and the head of the Atsssi family of that time. The family belongs to the Hashemite-Husseini class, or Ashraf, descendents of the [[prophet Mohammad]]. Islamic court Registers of [[Homs]] show that Sayed Sueliman was a highly regarded figure, as evident by the titles given to him in formal address by the court. He was married to Jalla Al-Khaleq Al-Atassi, the daughter of his cousin, Ali Efendi Al-Atassi, the Grand Mufti of Homs. He passed away in 1775 AD leaving one son, Sayed Saleh Atassi. It is estimated that there are about 500-600 family members today in Homs and other places in the Wrold. Some may still attach [[Atassi]] to their surname.
[[Image:Khaled_Atassi.jpg|thumb|200px|Grand Mufti of Homs]]
'''Khaled Efendi al-[[Atassi]]''' Al-Husseini ([[1837]] -[[October]], [[1908]]) ({{lang-ar| خالد الأتاسي}}) was a famous Syrian religious authority, scholar and political activist. Born in [[Homs]] to the famous [[Atassi]] family in 1837, he went through the traditional preparation for the position of [[Mufti]], a post his family filled for over 400 years. His father, Mohammad Efendi Al-Atassi was the [[Grand Mufti]] of [[Homs]], and so was his uncle, Saeed Al-Atassi. Khaled Efendi studied under famous Islamic scholars of his time in [[Homs]] and [[Damascus]]. In 1876 he was elected as deputy of [[Homs]] and [[Hama]] in the parliament of the [[Ottoman Empire]]. He was also given the post of Mudarres (teacher) in the Mosuqe of Khaled ibn Al-Waleed in Homs, a post that was held by his family for generations. In 1861, and while his father was still alive, Khaled Efendi assumed the position of the Mufti. However, Islamic court registers of [[Homs]] later designate him as the Deputy-Mufti, and his father as the Mufti. In 1882 the Grand Mufti of Homs, Mohammad Al-Atassi passed away, but the Ottoman administration handed the Mufti position to sheikh Hafez Al-Jindi Al-Abassi, who served as a Mufti till 1885. Khaled Efendi became the Mufti of Homs in 1885 by an official decree, and was removed from his post in 1894, to be filled by his bother, Abdu-Lateef Al-Atassi.
Khlaled Atassi was also a poet, and an author. He left several books in the topic of Islamic jurisdiction. His most famous work was "Shrah Al-Majallah", which is an interpretation of the Ottoman Islamic Law Code based on the [[Hanafi]] [[Fiqh]] school. Atassi died in 1908 before finishing the book, but it was later finished by his son [[Taher Al-Atassi]], also Mufti of Homs, and was published in 7 volumes.
Several of his sons and grandsons were prominent figures and assumed high offices in Syria. His son [[Hashem Al-Atassi]] headed the struggle against the French mandate and became the president of Syria several times. His son Taher Efendi took over the post of Mufti of Homs, and was elected to the Council of the Syrian States Union in 1922. Several of his grandsons became ministers in the Syrian government and deputies in the parliament.
== Naqabat Al Ashraf ==
Many Atassis Akcnoledge that Omar Najeeb AL-Omar mention of an Atassi Naquib was a mistake the original text by Khankha does not provie for that. Also please indicate what in particualr do you see as incoorect in my version. Furthermore, Amod Al Nasab from Ali the first and beyound is lost, no link has been made yet to Amood Nasab of Attas. The Ammod is available is avaialbe upto Ali the First. Please provide for the missing link pass Ali. Let's keep it factual otherwise We will keep going back and forth forever.
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I am not sure how to engage in a discussion here....this is an attempt.
I have no problem going back and forth, neither do my cousins, if we have to defend our heritage against someone who obviously has no right to make assumptions about the family's origins, let alone would not reveal his identity or listen to reason.
Dear Sir,
Please let's not take it personal here. You can claim anything you want (true or fales) on your family website. However on a Encyclopedic things have to be accurate and has to present the truth or atleast common knowledge or different openions. so why don't you do me a favour and stop this redicilous pitty attitude and approach this in a historical / research manner. I thought i presented the facts based on evidence. and if you have any suggestions to improve the quality of this post please let's work together. Otherwise I am not interested in a pitty quarell.
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Friend,
I appreciate that this is an encyclopedia, but unfortunately, you are not treating it as such. For us to work together there has to be mutual understanding of intentions and goals. What you view as factual I may view as the opposite. You may not know what constitutes proof of "sharaf" in Islamic law, and that is simply not my problem, nor my family's. Please do not think that you are in any position to judge, nor am I in any position to present any credentials or proofs to you. We did not ask for our family to be added to this encyclopedia, and we definitely, did not add this topic ourselves. So if you want to keep this section, you will have to listen! Unless you start dealing with me as an equal, not as a defendant, this "quarrel" will not end. I'm willing to cooperate with you, for it is my family, after all, about which you are writing. But for me to help build this section you will have to be as accountable as I am. If you ask me a question and expect an answer out of me, then you re bound to also answer my questions, and so on. Till then, this will continue, unfortunately.
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Dear Sir,
I am going to start with few lines here, please point out if something is inaccurate and would be ncie to see some logical evidence similar to those you have on your website. Thanks
"Atassi is the name of a prominent family in Homs, Syria dating back to the 16th century AD. Many Family members assumed prominent religious and political positions in Ottoman, French, and Independent Syria. The name Al-Atassi evolved from the word " الأطاسي" then later and at times العطاسي which means "the sneaser" in Arabic. A family member Suleiman Al-Atassi was refered to as "Al-Sayyed" in realestate ottoman documents in the 18th century"
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(The name Al-Atassi evolved from the word " الأطاسي" then later and at times العطاسي which means "the sneaser" in Arabic)
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This is in accurate. The evolution of this name went from عطاسي to أطاسي to أتاسي.
This is dictated by
1) simple logic.
2) popular belief among family members as well as others, as handed down generation to generation, and as written by their ancestors.
3) documentation in the Islamic court of law during the Ottoman era.
(A family member Suleiman Al-Atassi was refered to as "Al-Sayyed" in realestate ottoman documents in the 18th century")
This is inaccurate and too inclusive. This is to mean that only one person in the family was labeld as "Sayyed". That is not true, as many before him and after him were addressed by that title. There is no reason why only Suleiman is titled Sayed! Not only that, but he was also labeld as "Fakhr Al-Sadat" and "Fakhr Al-Sadah Al-Ashraf", and "Khadem Sharee'at jaddihi Aleihi Assalatu wa Assalam" (The servant of his grandfather's law, peace be upon him). There are others who were addressed in similar ways. If you are willing to cooperate I can show you these documents.
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That's a good start. I looked into your website and saw some of the document. It seemed to me ( and correct me if I was wrong) that the أطاسي is older as since founder him self was called أطاسي
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I do have what you are asking for, but there are two problems with your approach:
1) what if I didn't have these documents? Do you realize how difficult it is to collect these old documents? Especially if we are talking the 10th Hijri century (16th-17th AD)? It is next to impossible!
2) You cannot create history based on this logic, meaning: what is older is necessarily more accurate.