The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty (87 page)

Pahlavi, Muhammad Reza:
323

Palestine:
7
,
11
,
20
,
27
,
47
,
49
,
70
,
142
,
188
; British Mandate,
118
,
147
,
180
,
193–4
,
213
,
217
,
228
,
232
,
235
,
337
; Central Zionist Archives,
21
; Christian population of,
210
,
260
,
331
,
346
; Declaration of Independence (1988),
355
;
sijilat
,
2

Palestine Commercial Bank:
334

Palestine Communist Party (PCP):
261
; factions of,
338
; opposition to,
240

Palestinian Congress:
185
,
210
,
214
,
220
,
229
,
232–4
,
238
; members of,
182

Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (PJCA): aims of,
315

Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO):
161
,
350
; conflict with King Hussein,
361
; founding of,
360
; proclamation of Palestinian Independence (1964),
361
; supporters of,
365

Palestinian National Council: formation of (1949),
355
; members of,
306
,
361

Palin Commission: findings of,
209

Pan Islamic Conference (1931): executives of,
279

Pan Islamic Congress:
264
,
267

Pasha, Abdullah:
66

Pasha, Azzam: secretary general of Arab League,
335

Pasha, Darwish: Governor of Damascus,
61

Pasha, Enver: Ottoman Minister of War,
157
,
162

Pasha, Ibrahim:
70
,
79
; besiegement of Acre,
68
; family of,
68
; invasion of Syria (1831),
67

Pasha, Jamal:
159
,
163
; founder of al-Salhiyya College,
165
; military forces of,
164
; Military Governor of Syria,
133
,
157
,
189
; planning of Operation Lightning,
163

Pasha, Mustafa Surayya: Governor of Jerusalem,
81

Pasha, Nahas: leader of Wafd Party,
315

Pasha, Othman: army routed by Dahir al-Umar (1771),
38
; Governor of Damascus,
35
,
37–8

Pasha, Rauf: distrust of Husayni clan,
117
; Governor of Jerusalem,
97
,
117

Pasha, Sidqi: Egyptian Prime Minister,
265

Pasha, Suleiman:
56
; Governor of Jerusalem,
63
; rumours regarding religious background,
63

Pasha, Talat: member of Young Turks,
141

Pasha, Yusuf Kanj: Governor of Pasha,
51

Peel, Lord: head of Peel Commission,
287

Peel Commission:
286
; boycotting of,
288
; findings of (1937),
237
,
290
,
293–4
,
304
; formation of (1936),
287

Pétain, Marhal: leader of Vichy France,
329

Popham, Colonel: senior aide to chief administrator of Mandatory Palestine,
200

Protocols of the Elders of Zion
:
257

Qadi
:
93
; of Jerusalem,
57
; position of,
17

Qasr al-Mufti: residents of,
104

al-Qassam, Izz al-Din:
275
; background of,
222
,
275
; shooting of (1935),
280
; speeches of,
289
; supporters of,
278
,
281

al-Qayati, Abd al-Jawad: visit to Jerusalem,
106–7

al-Qawuqji, Fawzi: family of,
324

al-Qawuqji, Nabih: family of,
324

Qur’an:
48
,
53
,
107
,
114
,
321
,
362
;
ahl al-kitabi,
61
;
verses of,
27
,
263

al-Quwalti, Shuqri: influence of,
241

Rashad V, Sultan Mehmet: reign of,
159

Rashid, Ahmad: Governor of Jerusalem,
108

Rawdat al-Ma’arif: staff of,
111

Raziel, David: released from prison,
322

Richardson, Richard: first European admitted to Haram al-Sharif,
58

al-Rida, Sheikh Rashid:
142
,
154
;
Al-Manar
,
127–8
; education of,
141
; influence of,
265
; involvement with Decentralization Party,
141

Rokah, Eliezer: founder of Neveh Zedek,
126

Rokah, Yitzhak: property owned by,
120

Roman Catholicism:
61

Romania: Jewish population of,
123

Ruppin, Arthur: property development plans,
155

Russian Empire: expansionist aims of,
39
; February Revolution (1917),
186
; Jewish population of,
123

Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (1774),
40

Rutenberg, Pinhas: electrical grid,
241

al-Said, Isam: Mayor of Jerusalem,
241

al-Said, Nuri:
320
; Iraqi Prime Minister,
317

al-Sakakini, Dumiyya: secretary for al-Husayni, al-Hajj Amin,
352

al-Sakakini, Khalil:
135
,
158
,
164–5
,
182
,
185
,
190
,
205
; background of,
143
; diary of,
350
; imprisonment of,
165
; property owned by,
175
; role in opening of Ottoman Constitutional School (1908),
143–4
; Silk House,
190

al-Salam II, Abd: family of,
54
,
89

al-Salam III, Abd:
288

Salim, Khalil: property owned by,
112

Samuel, Sir Herbert:
234
; background of,
211
; first British High Commissioner of Mandatory Palestine,
186
,
192
,
211–12
,
217
,
224–5
; support for Zionism,
237

San Remo Conference (1920): decisions of,
210

Sanjaq
: concept of,
83

al-Sanusi, Ahmad al-Sharif: leader of Sanusi movement,
235

al-Saud, Hassan Abu:
181
; role in first Palestinian Congress (1919),
182

al-Saud, Mahmud Abu: leader of
Majils al-Shura
,
77

al-Saud, Sheikh Abu: speeches of,
246

Saudia Arabia:
313

Saunders, Alan: acting commander of Jerusalem police,
253

Schwartz, Rabbi Yehoseph: arrival in Jerusalem,
67

Second World War (1939–45):
9
,
230
,
301–2
,
312
,
334
,
340
,
348
; Holocaust,
322
,
338–9
; outbreak of,
315
,
320
; theatres of,
328