In The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty, historian Ilan Pappé tells the story of the Husayni family of Jerusalem, one of the most prominent Palestinian notable families, from the early eighteenth century to the Nakba of 1948.

Through the family’s fortunes – as religious scholars, officials and political leaders under the Ottomans and the British, including Hajj Amin al-Husayni – Pappé traces the social and political history of Palestine and the emergence of Palestinian nationalism. The book offers a rich portrait of Palestinian society before its destruction in 1948.