The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty (72 page)

73
.   Ibid., session 31, p. 16.

74
.   The Israeli State Archives, 65/2804, report from 23 August 1929.

75
.   Al-Peleg,
The Mufti
, p. 27.

76
.   Porath,
The Emergence
, p. 218.

CHAPTER 9

1
.     Attiyeh,
The Arab Palestinian
, p. 125.

2
.     Y. Reiter, ‘The Supervision on Managing the Muslim Waqf Affairs in Jerusalem Since the Mandatory Period, (1918–1990)’,
Ha-Mizarch Ha-Hadash
, 34 (1992), pp. 17–8 (Hebrew).

3
.     The Shaw Commission, session 46, p. 92.

4
.     Ibid., p. 103.

5
.     Ibid.

6
.     Kimmerling and Migdal,
The Palestinians
, p. 106.

7
.     An image from Darwaza,
Memories
, vol. 2, appendix. See Y. Porath,
From Riots to Revolt, 1929–1939
, Tel Aviv 1978, p. 39 (Hebrew).

8
.     Ibid.

9
.     
Al-Jamaa
’
al-Arabiyya
, 12 November 1931; S. Hamada,
The Consciousness
, p. 188.

10
.   The speech quoted in
Journal of the Central Asian Society
, vol. XVII (January 1910), pp. 93–8.

11
.   Portah,
From Riots
, p. 55.

12
.   Ibid., p. 20.

13
.   M. Kupferschmidt, ‘The General Muslm Congress of 1931 in Jerusalem’,
Asian and African Studies
, vol. 12 (1971), pp. 132–3.

14
.   PRO, CO 733/197, Interview of the High Commissioner with the Mufti, 5 October 1930.

15
.   Landman,
The Arabs
, p. 23.

16
.   M. Kramer,
Islam Assembled
, New York 1996, p. 126.

17
.   K. Qasmiyyeh,
The First Arab Pioneer: The Lives and Papers of Nabih and Adel al-Azma
, Damascus 1991, p. 209 (Arabic).

18
.   Al-Sifari,
Arab
, p. 178.

19
.   Porath,
Riots
, p. 26; Al-Peleg,
The Mufti
, p. 33.

20
.   Porath, ibid., p. 27.

21
.   Kramer,
Islam
, p. 127.

22
.   Khoury,
Syria
, pp. 539, 553.

23
.   Kramer,
Islam
, p. 132. On the biographer’s embarrassment, see Muhsin,
The Mother
, p. 139.

24
.   Al-Peleg,
The Mufti
, p. 32.

25
.   A. H. Ghana’im, ‘The Pan-Islamist Congress, 1931’,
Shuun Filastiniyya
, 25 (September 1973), pp. 124–5 (Arabic).

26
.   The Shaw Commission.

27
.   Quoted in T. Mayer, ‘Egypt and the General Islamic Conference of Jerusalem 1931’,
Middle Eastern Studies
, 18/3 (1982), p. 311, note 46.

28
.   Kramer,
Islam
, p. 127.

29
.   According to an informant’s report in Central Zionist Archives S25/3557.

30
.   Offer,
The Crystallization
, p. 332.

31
.   The French Report.

32
.   K. Stein,
The Land Question in Palestine, 1917–1939
, North Carolina 1985, pp. 233–5.

33
.   I wish to thank Dr Mustafa Abasi for providing me with the letter.

34
.   Mattar,
The Mufti
, p. 245.

35
.   Al-Dabagh,
The History
, part 2, chapter 10, p. 387.

36
.   Muhsin,
The Mother
, pp. 149–52; based on an unpublished MS by Qasim al-Rimawi,
A Biography of Abd al-Qadir
.

37
.   This description is taken from Muhsin, ibid., pp. 142-144, and Qasmiyyeh,
The First
.

38
.   
Filastin
, third year, no. 23, January 1923, pp. 8–10.

39
.   Ghana’im, ‘The Pan’, p. 258.

40
.   The committee’s report, p. 31.

41
.   Laval,
Al-Hajj
, pp. 29–30.

42
.   Y. Ohana-Arnon,
A Sword at Home
, Tel Aviv 1981, p. 26 (Hebrew).

43
.   The Hagana Archives, section 47, file 7, 20 September 1937.

44
.   B. Dinnur,
The Hagana Book
, vol. 2, part 1, Tel Aviv 1967, p. 451 (Hebrew).

45
.   Ohana-Arnon,
Sword
, p. 250.

46
.   Attiyeh,
The Arab
, p. 130.

47
.   PRO, FO 371/78, file 178, Jerusalem to London, 15 October 1934.

48
.   Nashashibi,
The Last
, p. 24.

49
.   Mogannam,
The Arab
, p.76.

50
.   Porath,
Riots
, p. 150.

51
.   
Filastin
, third year, no. 23, September 1923, pp. 8–10.

52
.   Porath,
Riots
, pp. 66–7.

53
.   Central Zionist Archives, S25/4127, and Ohana-Arnon,
Sword
, p. 102.

54
.   Offer,
Crystallization
.

55
.   Dinnur,
Hagana
, vol. 2, part 1, p. 540.

56
.   R. P. Mitchell,
The Society of Muslim Brothers
, London 1969, p. 154; Z. Abu Amru,
The Origins of the Political Movements in the Gaza Strip
, Jerusalem 1989, p.63.

57
.   I. Gershoni, ‘Muslim Brothers and the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936–1939’,
Middle Eastern Studies
, 22/3 (1986), p. 337.

58
.   C. Yasin,
The Great Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936–1939
, Cairo 1959, pp. 21–2 (Arabic).

59
.   A. Arslan,
The Memoirs of Prince Adel Arslan
, Beirut 1983, vol. 1, p. 43 (Arabic).

60
.   Hammad,
The Consciousness
, p. 72.

61
.   Kimmerling and Migdal,
The Palestinians
, p. 61.

62
.   Ghassan Kanafani’s 1935 article was translated into Hebrew in
Derech Ha-Nizotz
, 4 August 1988, p. 10.

63
.   T. al-Nashef, ‘Political Elite in Palestine’, PhD thesis, New York 1974, pp. 86–8.

64
.   Y. Herzog, ‘Contacts Between the Jewish Agency and the Palestinians, 1936–1939, The Arab Side: An Alternative or Integrative History?”, in I. Pappé (ed.),
Arabs and Jews in the Mandatory Era: A New Look on the Historical Research
, Givat Haviva 1992, p. 12.

65
.   PRO, FO 371/20018, E1717, Report of the Chief of Police to the SoS for the Colonies, 2 March 1936.

66
.   Herzog, ‘Contacts’, p. 13.

67
.   Central Zionist Archives, S25/4146, Yeidot Yossef, 20 July 1936.

68
.   Kimmerling and Migdal,
The Palestinians
, p. 105.

69
.   Ohana-Arnon,
Sword
, p. 35.

70
.   Herzog, ‘Contacts’, p. 5.

71
.   Ibid., p. 6.

72
.   Al-Husayni,
I Learned
, p. 73.

73
.   Ibrahim Skeik,
Gaza, Jerusalem, Palestine throughout History
, Jerusalem, 1996, p.35.

74
.   
http://www.passia.org/palestine_facts/personalities/alpha_h.htm

75
.   The letter and the memorandum were given to me by Mr. Farouk al-Husayni, the grandson of the Mayor together with very valuable information mentioned in these two paragraphs for which I am deeply grateful.

76
.   Ibid.

77
.   M. Cohen,
The British Decision to Evacuate Palestine: 1947–1948
, New York 1987, p. 18, note 49.

78
.   A. Zuaytar,
The Diaries of Akram Zuaytar
, Beirut 1980, p. 220 (Arabic).

79
.   Herzog, ‘Contacts’, p. 15.

80
.   13 July 1937; I wish to thank Yizhar Herzog for sharing this information with me.

81
.   Porath,
Riots
, pp. 198–204.

82
.   Kimmerling and Migdal,
The Palestinians
, p. 116.

83
.   Mattar,
The Mufti
, pp. 72–6.

84
.   Zuaytar,
Diaries
, pp. 90–8.

85
.   Y. Klein,
The Arab Community in Haifa in the Mandatory Era
, Haifa 1982, pp. 17–8 (Hebrew).

86
.   Yehuda Litani,
Al-Hamishmar
, 31 December 1993.

87
.   Israeli State Archives, The Mufti’s Personal File, a letter from Jamal to the High Commissioner, section 65, 376/2613.