The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty (79 page)

Arab Bureau: members of,
172
; memorandum (1917),
172

Arab Club:
185
,
220
,
223
; formation of,
180
; members of,
180–1
,
191

Arab Independence Party: formation of,
188

Arab League:
340
,
348
,
352
,
354–5
; Arab Committee,
337
; launch of (1944),
335
; members of,
335
; Palestinian Liberation Army,
364

Arab National Bank: Agricultural Bank,
288
,
305

Arab Revolt (1936-9):
320
; outbreak of,
282

Arab Salvation Army:
353
; members of,
347–8

Arab Studies Society: members of,
21

Arab-Ottoman Brotherhood Party:
136
; formerly Unity and Progress Party,
135

Arab-Ottoman Fraternal Association: founders of,
134

Arab Workers’ Congress: founding of (1925),
338

al-Arabi, Ibn: writings of,
27

Arafat, Yasser:
364
,
366
; President of Palestinian Authority,
363

al-Arif, Arif:
207
;
Suriya al-Janubiyya
,
200

Arslan, Adil: Syrian Foreign Minister,
357

al-Asali, Shukri: editor of
Al-Qabas
,
148
; Governor of Nazareth,
150

Ashu, Mustafa Shukri: assassination of King Abdullah (1951),
359–60

Association for Jerusalem: ideology of,
193

Association of Muslim Welfare Society: founding of (1885),
109

Association of Ottoman Jews: members of,
147
; support for Hussein al-Husayni,
147

Association of Palestinian Architects: members of,
333

al-Attar, Sheikh Hassan:
sheikh al-azhar
,
57

Attlee, Clement: British Prime Minister,
336
; foreign policy of,
336

Auster, Daniel: city planning designs,
333
; Mayor of Jerusalem,
309–10

Austria: annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
137
; Vienna,
129

Awqaf
:
16–17

Aziz, Sultan Abdul: reign of,
91

al-Aziz II, Sultan Abd: death of,
95
; family of,
95

Aziz II, Sultan Abdul: political support of,
90
; reign of,
105

al-Azm family: conspiracy against al-Husayni family,
42

al-Azm, Muhammad: Governor of Damascus,
38
,
40

al-Azma, Asma: family of,
306
; role in founding of Women’s Palestine Defense Committee,
306

al-Azma, Nabih: family of,
306

al-Bakhiri, Mustafa Ibn Kamil: member of Kheloti order,
27
; travels of,
26–7
; writings of,
26

Balfour, Arthur James: Balfour Declaration (1917),
124
,
161
,
178–9
,
182
,
185
,
187
,
191
,
193
,
196
,
199
,
202
,
206
,
211
,
214
,
216
,
218
,
231–2
,
241
,
261
,
314
; member of Council of Ten,
187

al-Bana, Hassan: family of,
279
; founder of Muslim Brotherhood,
242
,
279

Bandung Conference (1955): observers at,
360

Banu Hassan: Beit Safafa,
45
; tax revolt (1789),
45

Bashir II: Governor of Lebanon,
57
,
70

Battle of Bani Na’im (1938): belligerents of,
308

Baydas, Khalil:
Hadith al-Sajun
,
209
; speeches of,
205

Bedouin:
101
,
129
; robes,
296
;
sheikhs
,
213
; tribes of,
315

Beeley, Harold: main advisor on Palestine to Ernest Bevin,
345
; sacked (1948),
345

Belgium:
358

Belzoni, Giovanni: background of,
58
; family of,
58

Belzoni, Mrs: aim to visit Haram al-Sharif,
58

Ben-Gurion, David:
284
,
339
; exile of,
161
; ideology of,
255
; leader of Zionist movement,
304
; supporters of,
335
; territorial aspirations,
345

Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer:
160

Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak:
240

Bentwich, Norman:
231
; general prosecutor,
263

Berkley, Sarah: entry to Haram al-Sharif and Tomb of David,
58

Bethlehem:
305
; Christian population of,
65
; population of,
64–5

Bevin, Ernest:
339–40
,
346–7
; British Foreign Secretary,
336
; staff of,
345

Bey, Ismail:
183
; house of,
167

Bey, Khalil: Ottoman Minister of the Interior,
149

Bey, Musa: family of,
54

Bey, Tawfiq: Ottoman ambassador to Berlin,
114

Bey, Zurak: headmaster of Gobat boys’ primary school,
142
; supporters of,
160

Bliss, Daniel: first Protestant missionary in Middle East,
156

Blyth, George Francis: Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem,
130–1
; founder of St George’s (Mutran),
130

Bonaparte, Napoleon: expedition to Egypt (1798),
12
,
47–8
; military campaigns of,
11

Bosnia-Herzegovina:
330

Bowles, General:
211
; Governor of Palestine,
196

British Empire:
184
,
206
,
280
,
291
,
322
; allies of,
259
; occupation of Egypt,
113
,
319
; power of,
294
; territory of,
8–9
,
112–13

British Mandate of Palestine: territory of,
118

Bulgaria: Jewish population of,
123

Chancellor, John: British High Commissioner,
245
,
260
,
263

Charles X: support for Muhammad Ali,
68

Christianity:
37
,
59
,
105
,
125
,
141
,
164
,
223
; denominations of,
87
; European,
64
; holy sites of,
75
; missionaries,
62
; pilgrims,
69
,
97
; presence in Bethlehem,
65
; presence in Jerusalem,
46
,
51
,
61
,
94
,
96
; presence in Palestine,
210
,
260
,
331
,
346

Churchill, Winston:
219
,
330
; British Colonial Secretary,
218
,
230
,
232
; British Prime Minister,
318