The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty (69 page)

6
.     W. al-Khalidi,
Before the Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinian People, 1876
–
1948
, Beirut 1987, pictures 6 and 7 (Arabic).

7
.     Darwazza testified that he loved reading papers; see Darwazza,
Memories
, vol. 1, p. 172.

8
.     Ibid., p. 171.

9
.     
Filastin
, third year, 26 November 1916.

10
.   A. al-Said,
The Great Arab Revolt
, Beirut, no date, vol. 1, pp. 7–6 (Arabic); A. Nuhayd, ‘A Man in Palestine: Khalil al-Sakakini’,
Filastin
17 July 1995 (Arabic).

11
.   H. al-Sakakini,
This Is Me, Gentlemen
, Jerusalem 1990, diary entry: 12 November 1908 (Arabic).

12
.   Manna,
Worthies
, p. 127.

13
.   Darwazza,
Memories
, vol. 1, pp. 174–6.

14
.   K. al-Sakakini,
This Is Me, Oh World!
, Jerusalem, 1955, pp. 33–4 (Arabic).

15
.   Darwazza,
Memories
, p. 174.

16
.   Hanioglu,
The Young
, pp. 174–7.

17
.   Porath,
The Emergence
, p. 17.

18
.   
Filastin
, 4 May 1912.

19
.   Jabbara,
Studies
, p. 38.

20
.   
Al-Karmil
, vol. 19, issue 336, September 1913, p. 1.

21
.   Based on family material edited by Manna. See Manna,
Worthies
, p. 124.

22
.   Khalidi,
Palestinian
, p. 296.

23
.   
Al-Karmil
, vol. 186, third year, 18 October 1912.

24
.   Darwazza,
Memories
, p. 181.

25
.   See the appendix in B. N. al-Hut,
The Political Leaderships and Institutions in Palestine, 1917
–
1948
, Beirut 1981, p. 849 (Arabic).

26
.   Z. Mardini,
Palestine and Hajj Amin al-Husseini
, Beirut 1986, p. 28 (Arabic).

27
.   I. M. al-Husayni,
I Learned from the People
, Jerusalem 1968, p. 6 (Arabic).

28
.   Tannus,
The Palestinians
, p. 54.

29
.   Among them, ‘The Captain’s Daughter’ by Pushkin was published in
Al-Manar
in 1898.
Anna Karenina
by Tolstoy that was published in
Al-Nafais
. His most famous book was
Al-Warith
(
The Inheritor
), which was published in
Al-Nafais al-Asriyya
, forth year, and in 1921 appeared as a book printed by a Jerusalemite publisher.

30
.   Al-Sakakini,
This Is
, 21 September.

31
.   
Manjala
in Arabic, a pincher holding the coal for
nargilehs
and heating the water. This description was taken from Inchbold,
Under
, p. 213.

32
.   R. Memimel,
The Remedy of My People
, Berlin 1883 (Hebrew).

33
.   Asaf,
Arab-Jewish
, p. 62.

34
.   Y. Lamdan, ‘The Arabs and Zionism, 1882–1914’ in Y. Kolat (ed.),
The History of the Jewish Settlement in Palestine since the First Aliya’
, Jerusalem 1990, p. 233 (Hebrew).

35
.   R. Hichens,
The Holy Land
, London 1910, pp. 260–76.

36
.   Al-Dabagh,
The History
, p. 151.

37
.   M. H. Mansa,
The History of the Modern Arab East
, Beirut 1976, p. 150 (Arabic).

38
.   Darwazza,
Memories
, p. 188.

39
.   On 15 March 1911,
Al-Ahram
wrote on the connection between Jawdat Pasha and a French bank concerning the sale of land for Jewish owners. On 7 February 1913,
Al-Ahram
told its readers that the French-language paper
The Young Turks
was owned by the Jewish minister in charge of public affairs.

40
.   Lamdan,
The Arabs
, p. 231.

41
.   M. J. Mandel,
The Arabs and Zionism Before WWI
, Berkeley 1976, p. 112.

42
.   Porath,
The Emergence
, p. 19.

43
.   Al-Hut,
The Political
, p. 20.

44
.   Lamdan,
The Arabs
, p. 248.

45
.   H. Winner, ‘The Zionist Policy in Turkey until 1914’ in Y. Kolat (ed.),
The History of the Jewish Settlement in Palestine since the First Aliya’
, Jerusalem 1990, p. 338 (Hebrew).

46
.   Y. Yehoshua,
The Fruit of Jerusalem
, Jerusalem 1974, vol. 3, appendix on p. 128 indicates that the original document is to be found in the national library in the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Hebrew).

47
.   On 9 and 10 April 1914,
Al-Ahram
reported the birth of Abd al-Qadir; see K. H. Muhsin,
The Mother Palestine and her Noble Son Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini
, Amman 1986, p. 135 (Arabic).

48
.   K. A. Salwadi,
Dr Ishaq Musa al-Husseini
, Jerusalem 1991, p. 35 (Arabic).

49
.   Al-Husayni,
I Learned
, p. 30.

50
.   Darwazza,
Memories
, vol. 1, p. 128.

51
.   Tannus,
The Palestinians
, pp. 14–7.

52
.   Amin al-Husayni’s file in the Central Zionist Archives, file 104999 in S25.

53
.   A. Rupin,
My Life
, Tel Aviv 1968, vol. 2, pp. 164–5 (Hebrew).

54
.   Y. al-Awdat,
Palestine’s Thinkers and Authors
, Amman 1976, p. 109 (Arabic); for an interview by Philip Mattar with Zaynab al-Husayni, Amin’s daughter, see Mattar,
The Mufti
, p. 10, note 30.

55
.   Izzat Tanus,
The Palestinians
, p. 28.

56
.   Ibid.

57
.   Ibid., p. 31.

58
.   Jamal’s memoirs are quoted in Tannus,
The Palestinians
, p. 218.

59
.   A. Palmer,
The Decline and Fall of the Ottomans
, London 1992, p. 234.

60
.   Al-Sakakini,
Diary
, 28 September 1914.

61
.   G. Antonius,
The Arab Awakening
, London 1961, pp. 178–200.

62
.   Mattar,
The Mufti
, p. 11, note 14.

63
.   Al-Peleg,
The Mufti
, p. 9.

64
.   P. Kahanov, ‘The Jerusalem Trade Fifty Years Ago’,
From Early Days
, 1 (1935), p. 142 (Hebrew).

65
.   Al-Awdat,
Palestine
.

66
.   Tannus,
The Palestinians
, pp. 212–4; Al-Peleg,
The Mufti
, p. 9.

67
.   
Filastin
, 15 May 1914, quoted in Y. Lunz, ‘The Sources and Origins of the Palestinian National Movement on the Eve of the First World War’ in M. Maoz and B. Z. Kedar (eds),
The Palestinian National Movement: From Confrontation to Reconciliation?
, Tel Aviv 1996, p. 35 (Hebrew).

68
.   Jamal’s memoirs as they are quoted in Tannus,
The Palestinians
, p. 218.

69
.   
Filastin
, 24 May 1913; Tannus,
The Palestinians
, pp. 258–9; and P. Brockelman,
Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur
, vol. 3, Leiden 1970, p. 431.

70
.   T. A. Baru,
The Arabs and the Turks in the Constitutional Ottoman Era
, Cairo 1960, pp. 310–8 (Arabic).

71
.   George Antonius claims that young al-Hajj Amin played a crucial role in recruiting volunteers to the Arab revolt and that their numbers reached a few thousand. Dawn disagrees about the number. See the debate in Porath,
The Emergence
, p. 61. On Lloyd George, see D. Lloyd George,
The Truth About the Peace Treaties
, London 1938, pp. 1,027–40.

72
.   Mattar,
The Mufti
, p. 6.

73
.   The tale of Baydas’s escape is described in al-Awdat. The description of Said al-Husayni’s house is based on Landman,
The Arabs
, pp. 35–6. The rest of the descriptions are from al-Hut,
The Political
, p. 63.

74
.   Tannus,
The Palestinians
, p. 48.

75
.   Al-Sakakini,
Diary
, 2 February until 15 March 1915.

76
.   Tannus,
The Palestinians
, p. 54

CHAPTER 6

1
.     See P. Wavell,
The Palestine Campaigns
, London 1927, pp. 165–7.

2
.     The surrender is described in several sources. Izzat Tannus received the letter of surrender from Bishop Najib Qabain, who kept it after receiving it from Michail Abu Khatum in Jerusalem in December 1918. See Tannus,
The Palestinians
, p. 50.