The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty (78 page)

Al-Hajj Amin in the mid-1920s, in front of the Dome of the Rock.

Amir Abdullah, Winston Churchill and Musa Kazim in March 1921.

Winston Churchill and Herbert Samuel in Jerusalem, March 1921.

Nabi Musa festival procession in the mid-1920s, likely one of the last.

Al-Hajj Amin and Musa Kazim, at the head of the 1929 Palestinian delegation to London.

The Shaw Commission.

Al-Hajj Amin greets the 1931 Islamic Conference.

The British District Commissioner and assorted notables address the public in 1941 near the Jaffa Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Index

Abbas, Mahmud: President of Palestinian Authority,
363

Abd al-Hadi, Hussein:
74–5

Abd al-Hadi family:
74
,
274
; support for Ibrahim Pasha,
73

Abdullah, Amir: family of,
218

Abdullah, King:
264
,
345
,
354
,
358
; assassination of (1951),
303
,
359–60
,
362
; supporters of,
293
,
340
,
344

al-Abidin, Zayn:
36–7
;
naqim al-ashraf
of Istanbul,
34–5

Abu Ghosh, Abd al-Rahman: arrest of,
64–5
; family of,
64

Abu Ghosh, Ibrahim:
75

Abu Ghosh, Jaber: Governor of Jerusalem,
73

Abu Ghosh, Mustafa: family of,
64

Abu Ghosh, Sheikh Uthman:
56

Abu Ghosh family:
70
,
74–5
,
85
; arsenal owned by,
70
; territory owned by,
73

Acre,
14
,
36
,
39
,
47
,
51
,
63
,
81
,
231
; Nazareth,
117
; part of British Mandate of Palestine,
118

al-Afifi, Muhammad: family of,
180

Aga, Mehmet:
34
; chief eunuch in harem of the sultan,
33

Aharon: abuse of son,
38

al-Ahmad, Qasim: capture of,
76
; military forces led by,
75

al zawiyya al-wafa’iyya
: concept of,
30

Alami: rivalry with Ghudayya,
28

Al-Fata:
158
; formation of (1909),
138
; members of,
141

Algeria: Saiba,
39

Ali: family of,
29

Ali, Muhammad:
72
,
76
,
79
,
82
; death of (1931),
263
; driven out of Syria (1839),
78
; family of,
88
,
101
; funeral of
263–4
; Governor of Egypt,
67
; military career of,
67
; military forces of,
74
,
112

Ali, Shawqat: consideration of self as potential caliph,
265

Al-Jihad al-Muqaddas
: creation of (1940),
308
; members of,
308

Allenby, General:
203
; capture of Jerusalem,
170–1
; installation of Faysal Hussein as military ruler of Syria,
175–6
; military forces of,
168
,
170

American Colony:
103
,
114
,
206
; origins of,
92
,
108
; property of,
105
,
108
; residents of,
141–2
; youth population of,
110

American Red Cross: members of,
199

American Religious Society of Friends (Quakers): members of,
196

Andrews, Lewis: assassination of (1937),
293
; British District Commissioner of Northern Palestine,
293

Antonius, George:
156
,
253
; family of,
283
,
351
; writings of,
108–9
,
284