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Association for Jerusalem: ideology of, 193
Association of Muslim Welfare Society: founding of (1885), 109
Association of Ottoman Jews: members of, 147; support for Hussein al-Husayni, 147
Association of Palestinian Architects: members of, 333
al-Attar, Sheikh Hassan: sheikh al-azhar, 57
Attlee, Clement: British Prime Minister, 336; foreign policy of, 336
Auster, Daniel: city planning designs, 333; Mayor of Jerusalem, 309–10
Austria: annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 137; Vienna, 129
Awqaf: 16–17
Aziz, Sultan Abdul: reign of, 91
al-Aziz II, Sultan Abd: death of, 95; family of, 95
Aziz II, Sultan Abdul: political support of, 90; reign of, 105
al-Azm family: conspiracy against al-Husayni family, 42
al-Azm, Muhammad: Governor of Damascus, 38, 40
al-Azma, Asma: family of, 306; role in founding of Women’s Palestine Defense Committee, 306
al-Azma, Nabih: family of, 306
al-Bakhiri, Mustafa Ibn Kamil: member of Kheloti order, 27; travels of, 26–7; writings of, 26
Balfour, Arthur James: Balfour Declaration (1917), 124, 161, 178–9, 182, 185, 187, 191, 193, 196, 199, 202, 206, 211, 214, 216, 218, 231–2, 241, 261, 314; member of Council of Ten, 187
al-Bana, Hassan: family of, 279; founder of Muslim Brotherhood, 242, 279
Bandung Conference (1955): observers at, 360
Banu Hassan: Beit Safafa, 45; tax revolt (1789), 45
Bashir II: Governor of Lebanon, 57, 70
Battle of Bani Na’im (1938): belligerents of, 308
Baydas, Khalil: Hadith al-Sajun, 209; speeches of, 205
Bedouin: 101, 129; robes, 296; sheikhs, 213; tribes of, 315
Beeley, Harold: main advisor on Palestine to Ernest Bevin, 345; sacked (1948), 345
Belgium: 358
Belzoni, Giovanni: background of, 58; family of, 58
Belzoni, Mrs: aim to visit Haram al-Sharif, 58
Ben-Gurion, David: 284, 339; exile of, 161; ideology of, 255; leader of Zionist movement, 304; supporters of, 335; territorial aspirations, 345
Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer: 160
Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak: 240
Bentwich, Norman: 231; general prosecutor, 263
Berkley, Sarah: entry to Haram al-Sharif and Tomb of David, 58
Bethlehem: 305; Christian population of, 65; population of, 64–5
Bevin, Ernest: 339–40, 346–7; British Foreign Secretary, 336; staff of, 345
Bey, Ismail: 183; house of, 167
Bey, Khalil: Ottoman Minister of the Interior, 149
Bey, Musa: family of, 54
Bey, Tawfiq: Ottoman ambassador to Berlin, 114
Bey, Zurak: headmaster of Gobat boys’ primary school, 142; supporters of, 160
Bliss, Daniel: first Protestant missionary in Middle East, 156
Blyth, George Francis: Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, 130–1; founder of St George’s (Mutran), 130
Bonaparte, Napoleon: expedition to Egypt (1798), 12, 47–8; military campaigns of, 11
Bosnia-Herzegovina: 330
Bowles, General: 211; Governor of Palestine, 196
British Empire: 184, 206, 280, 291, 322; allies of, 259; occupation of Egypt, 113, 319; power of, 294; territory of, 8–9, 112–13
British Mandate of Palestine: territory of, 118
Bulgaria: Jewish population of, 123
Chancellor, John: British High Commissioner, 245, 260, 263
Charles X: support for Muhammad Ali, 68
Christianity: 37, 59, 105, 125, 141, 164, 223; denominations of, 87; European, 64; holy sites of, 75; missionaries, 62; pilgrims, 69, 97; presence in Bethlehem, 65; presence in Jerusalem, 46, 51, 61, 94, 96; presence in Palestine, 210, 260, 331, 346
Churchill, Winston: 219, 330; British Colonial Secretary, 218, 230, 232; British Prime Minister, 318
Ciano, Count: Italian Foreign Minister, 326
Clemenceau, Georges: French Prime Minister, 184, 192
Colombani, Pierre: French Chief of Police in Damascus, 315
Cold War: impact of, 360
Council of Ten: member of, 187
Crimean War (1853-6): 87, 93, 96, 120, 152; Treaty of Paris (1856), 87
Cyprus: British conquest of (1876), 112–13
Czechoslovakia: German annexation of (1938), 310
al-Dajani, Abd al-Rahman: first mayor of Jerusalem, 88
al-Dajani, Arif: 224, 239; dismissal of (1922), 236; founder of Muslim-Christian Association, 182; role in first Palestinian Congress (1919), 182
al-Dajani, al-Hajj Raghib: 181
Dalle, Wilhelm: German Consul General, 292
Damascus: 14, 19, 27–8, 34, 36, 56, 63, 80, 83, 88, 161, 175–6, 183, 220, 266, 298, 311; British consulate, 292; German consulate, 302, 311; Husayni presence in, 300; Italian consulate, 302, 311; Jewish communities of, 148; military forces stationed in, 132; Turkish consulate, 300; Victoria Hotel, 211; vilayet of, 82
Darwaza, Izzat: 210, 313–14, 325; delegate of Palestinian Congress, 182; General Secretary of Pan Islamic Conference, 279; General Secretary of Supreme Muslim Council, 279; head of Damascus branch of Palestinian Information Office, 301; secretary of Palestinian Congress, 190; speeches of, 246
Darwish, Ishaq: family of, 180
Daya’a, Yusuf: member of Khalidi family, 88; offered post of mayor of Jerusalem, 88
Decentralization Party: 158; founding of (1912), 150; ideology of, 141
Deedes, Sir Wyndham: 224; resignation of (1921), 224
al-Din, Abd al-Kader ibn al-Karim: family of, 29
al-Din, Muhammad Badr: family of, 29; migration of, 29
Dixon, John: British Consul, 117, 121
Eden, Anthony: British Foreign Secretary, 324
Eder, M.D.: member of Zionist Commission, 212
Eichmann, Adolf: staff of, 331
Effendi, Muhib al-Din: 25; death of (1733), 28; family of, 26, 28
Egypt: 39, 41, 52, 72, 133; Al-Aqdam, 112, 125, 147, 149–50, 184, 200, 279, 313; Al-Manar, 124; Al-Muqatam, 174; British occupation of, 113, 319; Cairo, 14, 52, 76, 153, 155, 163, 174, 233, 236, 270, 279, 301–2, 306, 318, 331–2, 340, 352, 363; education system of, 112; elites of, 52; government of, 265; military of, 72; Napoleonic invasion of (1798), 12, 47–8; Salafiyya movement, 135; tomb of Tutankhamen, 204
Europe: 7, 23, 53; banking system of, 15
Fabian Society: ideology of, 303
Faraj, Yaqub: family of, 185
Faruq, King: 331
al-Faruqi, Sheikh Suleiman al-Taji: influence of, 215
Fatima: family of, 29
Faur, Amir: 315
Faysal, King Amir: 205, 213, 223; defeated by French military (1921), 214; family of, 218; military forces of, 192, 214; territorial ambitions of, 188
al-Fida’iyya: formerly ‘The Black Hand’, 181–2, 227
Finley, Colonel: head of American Red Cross, 199
Finn, James: British consul, 86
Firman: examples of, 17
First Intifada (1987-93): outbreak of, 364
First World War (1914–8): 81, 99, 116, 118, 131, 150, 175, 178, 190, 243, 301, 319, 355; belligerents of, 157; outbreak of, 105, 115, 133, 137, 148, 156–7; Paris Peace Conference (1919), 183, 188, 191, 210; political impact of 190, 199; Sykes-Picot Pact, 171, 186, 188; theatres of, 135; Treaty of Versailles (1919), 185–6
France: 14; military of, 195; Paris, 129, 331; Revolution (1789–99), 51; territory of, 112; Versailles, 185–6, 188
Frumkin, Gad: 212–13, 240
Fuad I, King: 265
Galilee: 73
al-Gaylani, Fawzi: supporter of al-Hajj Amin al-Husayni, 329
al-Gaylani, Rashid: 321–2, 328; office chief of Abd al-Illah, 315; supporter of al-Hajj Amin al-Husayni, 329
Gaza: 23, 79, 116, 285; Husayni presence in, 128
Germany: 300, 306, 346; Berlin, 314, 319–20, 324, 326–7, 330; Foreign Ministry, 319, 323, 326–7
al-Ghori, Abu Saud: qadi of Jerusalem, 222
al-Ghori, Emil: former secretary of Higher Arab Committee, 332; general secretary of National Defense Party, 278; role in creation of Al-Jihad al-Muqaddas (1940), 308
al-Ghudayya, Abdullah: family of, 26–7, 34; Al-Qudsi, 34; sheikh al-haram, 27, 34
al-Ghudayya, Muhib al-Din: mufti, 34
Ghudayya family: 29, 34, 37, 221; income sources, 37; renamed Husayni, 25–7
Glazenburg, Dr Otis: American Consul, 197
Gobat, Samuel: background of, 143; influence of, 94; role in establishing Zion School for Boys (1853), 94, 143
Gort, Lord: British High Commissioner, 331
Greek Revolution (1821–32): 60–1, 79; impact of, 63, 66
Green Flag Association: members of, 139
Haddad, General Jibril Pasha: background of, 171; language spokesman for General Allenby, 171; staff of, 175
Haddad, Kemal: personal secretary of al-Hajj Amin al-Husayni, 319
al-Hadi, Awni Abd: 286–7
Haifa: 36, 231, 305; mufti, 215; Shari‘a court, 275
Haimson, Albert: career of, 302
al-Hajj, Abd al-Rahim: death of (1939), 299
al-Hajj Amin: accusation of Nazi support, 9
al-Hakim, Yusuf: view of education system of Jerusalem, 112
al-Hamid II, Sultan Abd: banning of Jewish immigration (1882), 119; concerns regarding expansion of printing presses, 127; foreign policies of, 112, 114; promotion of Ottoman nationalism, 127; reign of, 97–8, 106–7, 117, 126, 175; support for pan-Islamism, 109; supported by Young Turks, 95
Hamid II, Sultan Abdul: 132, 159; reign of, 90, 94, 152, 210; support for Husayni family, 90
Hanafi: 173
Hananya, George Habib: role in establishing first Arab press in Jerusalem (1906), 127
Hashemites: 162, 187, 195, 264, 286, 290–2, 320, 340, 342, 345–7, 361; secret service, 362; territory of, 221, 347, 358–9
Hebron: 73, 230–1
Herzl, Theodore: The Jewish State, 146
Higher Arab Committee: 287, 290, 298, 314, 340, 348, 361; Arab Treasury, 342; disbanded (1937), 293; formation of, 282–3; members of, 305, 338, 345, 350; offices of, 291; recognised by British government (1947), 341; strategies of, 285
Hikmet, Ahmad Arif: Grand Mufti of Ottoman Empire, 57, 85; qadi of Jerusalem, 57
Hill, Sir John Grey: support for Zionism, 155
Hilmi, Ahmad: head of People’s fund, 341
Hitler, Adolf: 319, 326–7; view of Palestinian independence movement, 327–8
Homeland and Freedom Association: organized by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, 132
Hourani, Albert: 12
al-Husayni, Abd al-Latif: family of, 245
al-Husayni, Abd al-Qadir: 236, 272–3, 280, 304, 348; death of (1948), 350–2; education of, 232–3; expulsion from Egypt, 271; family of, 232, 264, 270, 304, 307, 315, 356; role in creation of Al-Jihad al-Muqaddas (1940), 308, 365; support for Iraqi rebels, 322; supporters of, 351, 366
al-Husayni, Abd al-Salam II: 126; family of, 116, 121; Governor of Gaza, 116
al-Husayni, Abd al-Salam III: Governor of Jaffa, 116
al-Husayni, Ahmad Hilmi: 337
al-Husayni, Ahmad Arif: family of, 162
al-Husayni, Ahmad Rasim: education of, 106; family of, 91
al-Husayni, Amin: 197; family of, 153, 160; religious tuition of, 129–30
al-Husayni, Amina: education of, 306; family of, 306; member of Palestinian National Council, 306
al-Husayni, Arif Yunis: activism activity of, 309; property of, 310
al-Husayni, Bashir Fahmi: family of, 89, 121; sheikh al-haram, 116
al-Husayni, Daud: arrest of (1951), 360
al-Husayni, Fahmi: family of, 306; Mayor of Gaza, 285; role in issuing of al-Hokouk (1923), 285–6
al-Husayni, Fakhri: family of, 160; member of Arab Club, 181; member of Literary Club, 181
al-Husayni, Fatma: education of, 306; family of, 306
al-Husayni, Fawzi Darwish: founder of Filastin al-Jadidah, 342; murder of (1947), 343; speeches of, 342–3
al-Husayni, Faysal: arrest of (1967), 364; biography of, 364–5; death of (2001), 363; family of, 363, 365; founder of General Union of Palestinian Students, 363; head of Arab Studies Society, 21; political ideology of, 9; presence at Madrid Conference (1991), 363
al-Husayni, Fuad: family of, 343
al-Husayni, Ghazi: family of, 365
al-Husayni, al-Hajj Amin: 128, 154–5, 159, 163, 177, 179, 182, 184, 190–1, 193–4, 200, 207, 224–5, 228, 244, 250, 253, 255, 262–3, 265–7, 313, 318–19, 328–9, 332, 344, 357; Al-Jamaa’ al-Arabiyya, 246–7; al-Buraq campaign (1928), 246–7; allies of, 347; boycotting of Peel Commission, 288; career of, 175; claims of support/participation of Nazi party, 331; commander of Arab Salvation Army, 347–8; conflict with Arab League, 349; death of (1974), 355–6, 361, 365; escape from Palestine (1937), 294–5; exile of, 307, 310; family of, 93, 100, 105, 154, 221, 301, 303, 322, 362; Grand Mufti of Palestine, 217, 226, 237, 266; head of Higher Arab Committee, 341; head of Supreme Muslim Council, 296; influence of, 189, 193, 215, 222, 231–3, 266, 277, 283, 289; member of Palestine committee of Syrian Congress, 211; member of Supreme Muslim Council, 208; mufti, 124; observer at Bandung Conference (1955), 360; placed under house arrest (1939), 315; president of Arab Club, 180; president of Supreme Muslim Council, 262, 266; property owned by, 250, 353; relationship with Musa Kazim, 100; staff of, 352; supporters of, 329, 358; trial of, 257
al-Husayni, Hassan: 51, 106; education of, 41-2; family of, 52–3; sheikh al-haram, 52; mufti of Jerusalem, 52; The Biographies of the Jerusalemite Families in the 12th Hirja Century, 41
al-Husayni, Hilmi: family of, 180; member of Arab Club, 181
al-Husayni, Husam al-Din: family of, 111
al-Husayni, Hussein: 164, 167; death of (1918), 172, 171; Mayor of Jerusalem, 143, 146, 148–9, 171–3, 223; supported by Ottoman Jews, 147
al-Husayni, Ibrahim Said: career of, 178, 305; employed by ICA, 125; family of, 125, 180, 315; member of Arab Club, 181
al-Husayni, Imam Yunes: family of, 105; properties built by, 105–6
al-Husayni, Ishaq Musa: 334; career of, 178, 309, 362–3; education of, 309; memoirs of, 194; The Memories of a Hen (1943), 284–5
al-Husayni, Ismail: 112, 114, 146, 151; death of (1945), 334; education of, 108; family of, 108–10; founder of Palestine Commercial Bank, 334; head of Ottoman Department of Public Instruction, 110
al-Husayni, Jamal: 227, 231, 259, 318, 322, 344, 354; exile of, 307; family of, 269, 276; Mirat al-Sharaq, 236; nationalisation programmes of, 341; Palestinian Foreign Minister, 355; role in establishing Welfare Organization of the Women of Jerusalem (1919), 198; vice president of Higher Arab Committee, 345, 350
al-Husayni, Jamil: 156–7, 194, 214; advisor to Damascus branch of Palestinian Information Office, 301; family of, 148, 180; member of Arab Club, 181; member of Literary Club, 200
al-Husayni, Kamil: 179, 191, 205, 213, 231; death of (1921), 212, 214, 217, 220–1; family of, 221; Grand Mufti, 212; mufti of Jerusalem, 130, 148, 153, 161–2, 171–3, 183, 186
al-Husayni, Khalid: director of UNRWA, 362; family of, 362; shortcomings of, 352
al-Husayni, Latif: naqib, 100
al-Husayni, Muhammad: education of, 306; family of, 306
al-Husayni, Muhammad Ali: 83, 152; member of Majils al-Shura, 77; role in construction of Fuja, 84
al-Husayni, Muhammad Salah: 161, 295–6; head of Rawdat al-Ma’arif, 111, 160
al-Husayni, Munif: director of Palestinian Information Office, 301; editor of Al-Jamaa’ al-Arabiyya, 258, 276, 311; family of, 301
al-Husayni, Musa: 123; family of, 98, 102, 108; head of chamber of commerce, 106
al-Husayni, Dr Musa Abdullah: arrest and torture of (1951), 360; activism activity of, 326–7; career of, 178; family of, 178, 302–3, 327; role in assassination of King Abdullah (1951), 359–60
al-Husayni, Musa al-Alami: 337; Project for Saving the Land, 341
al-Husayni, Musa Kazim: 116, 126, 139, 151, 190, 194, 206–7, 217–18, 227, 229–30, 233–4, 239, 241–2, 253–4, 257, 270, 273, 30, 344; ‘A Call to Palestine’, 259; death of, (1934), 277–8; education of, 115; family of, 130, 173, 200, 232, 264, 276, 305, 307, 350; governor of multiple regions, 115; influence of, 273; Mayor of Jerusalem, 115, 181, 183, 209, 216, 221; president of Literary Club, 214; retirement of, 193; speeches of, 216–17
al-Husayni, Musa Saleh: family of, 130
al-Husayni, Mustafa: 92, 102, 121; family of, 152; Sheikh al-Haram, 87
al-Husayni, Mustafa II: education of, 139; family of, 138; founding member of Green Flag Association, 139
al-Husayni, Mustafa III: family of, 141
al-Husayni, Naquib Umar: renovation work carried out by, 56
al-Husayni, Rabah: 103; expansion of family financial holdings, 91; property built by, 103; naqib, 100, 106
al-Husayni, Rafiq: family of, 306
al-Husayni, Rasim: resignation from leadership of youth movements, 277
al-Husayni, Rasim Yunis: arrest and torture of (1937), 305
al-Husayni, Safwat Yunis: 322; family of, 343
al-Husayni, Said: 125, 128, 136, 141, 150, 191, 200; career of, 111; education of, 125; family of, 111; honorary president of Association of Palestinian Architects, 333; member of Arab Club, 181; view of Zionism, 125
al-Husayni, Salim: 101–2, 124–5, 133; criticisms of Zionism, 125–6; Mayor of Jerusalem, 99, 104, 106, 120–1; view of Jewish immigration 119–20
al-Husayni, Salim Hussein: 322; family of, 305
al-Husayni, Salma: family of, 306
al-Husayni, Shaker: 224; family of, 223
al-Husayni, Sharif: career of, 362; family of, 362
al-Husayni, Sheikh al-Haram Arif Yunis: 333
al-Husayni, Sheikh al-Haram Bashir: family of, 206
al-Husayni, Sheikh Yusuf: religious knowledge of, 126
al-Husayni, Shukri: 128, 136–7; co-founder of Arab-Ottoman Fraternal Association, 134; education of, 108; family of, 108, 133–4; founder of Association of Muslim Welfare Society, 109
al-Husayni, Su’ad: family of, 306
al-Husayni, Suleiman: 298
al-Husayni, Tahir: 65, 67–8, 178; death of, 86; mufti of Jerusalem, 54, 73, 77; pawning of valuables of Orthodox Church, 64; revolt led by, 62
al-Husayni, Tahir II: 104–5; death of (1908), 129; family of, 93, 99, 105, 124, 128, 153; mufti of Jerusalem, 92–3, 106, 119, 122; view of Jewish immigration, 122
