The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty (88 page)

Selim III, Sultan: accession of (1789),
45
; reformations of,
51
,
67
; reign of,
45

al-Sha’arawi, Huda: influence of,
305–6
; role in founding of Women’s Palestine Defense Committee,
306

Shafi’i:
173
;
mufti
,
104

al-Shanti, Ibrahim: founder of
Al-Difaa
,
332

Sharett, Moshe: family of,
124
; Israeli Prime Minister,
124
; representative of Jewish Agency,
350

al-Sharif, Haram:
252

Shaw, Sir Walter: chair of Shaw Commission,
256

Shaw Commission: members of,
256
; reports of,
257–8
; testimonies submitted to,
248

al-Shawa, Izz al-Din:
261
,
315

Shehadeh, Bullus:
181
; editor of
Mirat al-Shiraq
,
237
; head of Catholic community of Jerusalem,
215

al-Shuqayri, Ahmad: family of,
161
,
352
; head of PLO,
161
; role in founding of PLO,
360

al-Shuqayri, Sheikh As’ad: family of,
161
,
352
;
mufti
of Acre,
352

Simpson, Sir John Hope: vice chairman of League of Nations Refugee Settlement Commission,
260

Six-Day War (1967): outbreak of,
364

Sokolov, Nahum:
187

Soviet Union (USSR):
335
,
360

Spire, André:
187

St James Conference: failure of,
314–15
; participants at,
311

Stalker, Henry: lawyer for al-Hajj Amin al-Husayni,
257

Storrs, Ronald:
173–4
199
,
201
,
209
,
226
; Governor of Jerusalem,
172
,
179
,
186
,
190
,
194
,
200
,
222
; staff of,
200
,
225

Sufism:
26
,
247
; Kheloti order,
27
; Wafa’i,
30

Suleiman I, Sultan:
24
,
50
; reign of,
37
; taxation policies of,
49

al-Sulh, Riad:
229

Sunna:
107

Supreme Muslim Council:
238–9
,
246
,
249
,
255
,
267
,
271
,
275
,
281
,
298
; creation of,
230–1
,
244
; disbanded (1937),
293
,
295
; financial support of,
292–3
; members of,
208
,
256
,
262
,
266
,
279
,
296

al-Su‘ud, Abu:
56

Switzerland: government of,
330

Syndic of the Descendants of the Prophet: members of,
13

Syria:
19
,
41
,
47
,
149
,
188
,
274
,
352
; Bludan,
292
; elites of,
52
,
142
; French Mandate,
195
,
210
,
229
; government of,
348
; Hauran,
115
; Ministry of Interior,
300
; National Bloc,
293
; Palestinian exiles in,
312
; Pools of Solomon,
57
; population of,
178

Syrian Congress: Palestine committee,
211

al-Tal, Abdullah: commander of Arab Legion,
358
; opposition to King Abdullah,
359

Tantura:
36

Tanus, Izzat: education of,
152–3

Tanzimat:
11
,
18–19
,
79
,
81
,
83
,
92–3
,
152
; Land Law (1858),
18

Transjordan:
73
,
188
,
210
,
218
,
290
,
321
,
325
,
346
,
348
,
354
; Irbid,
115
; presence of Hijazi tribes in,
291

Tuqwa, Fudan: family of,
239

Tuqwa, Hafiz: family of,
239

Tuqan, Musa: family of,
54
,
101
; Governor of Nablus,
54

Tuqan family:
56
,
74
,
99
,
274
; members of,
54
; presence in Nablus,
66
,
73
,
274

Turkey:
141
,
300
,
319
,
323

Ulama
: members of,
15
,
223
; origins of,
13

al-Umar, Dahir:
38–9
,
45
,
48
; influence of,
35
; ‘King of Galilee’,
35
; routing of army of Pasha Othman (1771),
38
; territory seized by (1773),
38

United Kingdom (UK):
313
; Colonial Office,
184
,
261
,
312
Foreign Office,
312
,
314
,
318
; London,
258
,
266
,
292–3
,
310
,
346
; Parliament,
184
,
210
,
218
,
227
,
248
; War Office,
312
; Westminster,
238

United Nations (UN):
335
,
343
,
346
; Committee of Inquiry (1947),
287–8
; Partition Resolution,
338
,
344
,
347–8
, 351,
357
; Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
362
; Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP),
343–4
,
351

United States of America (USA):
199
,
291
,
360
; American National Archives,
192
; Congress,
184
,
192
; isolationist foreign policy,
229–30
; Jewish population of,
320
; Justice Department,
331
; Republican Party,
184
; Washington DC,
207
,
215
;

Ussishkin, Menahem:
187
; head of Zionist Commission,
212
; leader of Zionist Congress delegation (1918),
179