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The Palestine Education Collection consists of dozens of documents from the 1920s-1950 relating to education in Palestine during the British Mandate period and beyond.
Download the Gaza Collection, consisting of 600+ documents related to history of Gaza and Palestine from the 1910s-1970s. Most of the material dates to 1920s-1950s. Palestine Nexus acquired this collection from Saleem Elrayes.
Download The Palestinian Arab Index, 1946. Al-Lajna al-Thaqafa al-‘Arabiyya, al-Kitab al-‘Arabi al-Filastini (n.p.: Matba‘at al-Liwa al-Tijariyya, 1946). This book is an index of books published either in Palestine or by Palestinians in the first half of the 20th century.
Yusuf Jahshan (c. 1760s), Book of Daniel, Ramla, Palestine
Filastin (1911-1912), a bi-weekly Arabic periodical published in Jaffa
Download 1911-1912 copies of Filastin, one of the first Arabic periodicals to appear in Palestine after the Ottoman Constitutional Revolution of 1908. It was published twice a week in Jaffa, and distributed widely across Palestine.
Ottoman Archival Records, disease rates in Mount Lebanon, (1915-1916)
Muhibb al-Din al-Hamawi (d. 1608), al-Durra al-Mudi’a fi al-Rihla al-Misriyya
This manuscript (Landberg 437) is an account of al-Hamawi’s voyage to Egypt in 1590 .
Murtada ibn Mustafa al-Kurdi (d.1734), Tadhhib al-Atwar fi ‘Aja’ib al-Amsar
This manuscript (Berlin: Sprenger 23a, film: 1369) is an account of the little known Damascene traveller, Murtada al-Kurdi.
‘Abd al-Qadir Abi al-Sa‘ud (c. 1840-1), Min Misr ila Islambul (Dar al-Kutub, Bab al-Khalq #755, Cairo, Egypt)
This manuscript is an account of the Jerusalemite’s al-Sa‘ud travels from Jerusalem to Istanbul. For more on the manuscript, see ʻImād ʻAbd al-Salām Raʼūf’s piece here.
Download the Geography of Palestine, 1904 (Jurji al- Khuri Sbiridun Sarruf (trans.), Jughrafiyat Filastin: Li-Isti‘mal Madaris al-Qabr al-Muqaddas al-‘Amma (Jerusalem: Matba‘at al-Qabr al-Muqqadas, al-Mutakhassa bi-dayr al-Run al-‘Amir, 1904)
Download the History of Jerusalem, 1920, published by Khalil Totah and Bulus Shihadah, Tarikh al-Quds wa-Daliluha (Jerusalem: Matba‘at Mir’at al- Sharq, 1920)
Download hundreds of Turkish and Ottoman documents, letters and private papers from Haldun Gürmen and other prominent Turkish scholars (1920s-1970s).
Download selections from A History of Gaza (1943) 'Arif al-'Arif, Tarikh Gazza (Jerusalem: Matba‘at Dar al-Aytam al-Islamiyya, 1943). This is the first History of Gaza written and published in Arabic in the 20th century.
Download Greater Lebanon (1924). Yusuf Sufayr, Jughrafiyat Lubnan al-Kabir wa-Hukumat Suriya wa-Filastin (Beirut: Matabi‘ Kuzma, 1924)
Download this Ottoman geography book published in 1875 in Istanbul by Ahmet Hamdi, Usûl-i Coğrafya-yı Kebîr, Yahya Efendi Matbaası.
Download French documents related to Alexandretta, also known as Hatay, before and after its handover from French controlled Syria to Turkey.
Download A History of Palestine (Tārīkh Filasṭīn), first published in 1923 by ʻUmar al-Ṣāliḥ al-Barghūthī and Khalīl Ṭūṭaḥ. تاريخ فلسطين - عمر الصالح البرغوثى وخليل طوطح
Download A History of Haifa (Tārīkh Ḥaifā), published by Jamil al-Bahri in 1922.
Download Khalil Totah and Habib Khuri, Jughrafiyat Filastin (Jerusalem: Matba‘at Bayt al-Maqdis, 1923)
Download Ṣabrī Sharīf ʻAbd al-Hādī, Jughrāfīyat Sūriyā wa-Filasṭīn al-ṭabīʻīyah (al-Matbaʻah al-Rahmānīyah, al-Qāhirah, 1923)
Download Maktabat Bayt al-Maqdis, al-Mukhtasar al-Jughrafi Li-Ahdath Filastin (Geographical summary of Palestine), 1945