The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty: The Husaynis 1700-1948

English
By: Ilan Pappe
Hardcover
399 pp
Saqi, 2010
16 x 24 cm
9780863564604
Middle East History - Politics

In this political biography, Ilan Pappe traces the rise of the Husayni family of Jerusalem, who dominated Palestinian history from the early 1700s until the second half of the twentieth century.

Viewing this sweeping saga through the prism of one family, the book sheds new light on crucial events - the invasion of Palestine by Napolean, the decline of the Ottoman Empire, World War I, western colonialism, and the advent of Zionism - and provides an unforgettable picture of the Palestinian tragedy in its entirety.

"The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty" is the history of Palestinian politics before national movements and political parties. In telling the story of one family, the book highlights the continuity between periods customarily divided into pre-modern and modern, pre-Zionist and Zionist, illuminating history as it was actually lived.