Muhammad Y. Muslih, The Origins of Palestinian Nationalism. Columbia University Press, 1988. “A third notable family was the Nashashibi family, which established itself in Jerusalem in the fifteenth century. This wealthy landowning family, alleged to be of Circassian or Kurdish origin, owed its status in late Ottoman times to 'Uthman al-Nashashibi, a landowner who was elected to the Ottoman parliament in 1912, and Raghib al-Nashashibi, who was chief engineer of the Jerusalem district, and a member of the Ottoman parliament in 1914.”[2]
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Ariel Blufstein, Las élites palestinas de jerusalén. Universidad de Buenos Aires. “The Nashashibis have lived in Jerusalem since the fifteenth century. It is believed that this family is of Kurdish descent.”[1]
