الآن ، هذه العائلة التي تنتمي لمدينة حيفا العثمانية توزعت عبر القارات في سوريا وفلسطين ولبنان والأردن ومصر والبحرين والمملكة العربية السعودية والولايات المتحدة الأمريكية.

ولكل فرد في هذه العائلة تاريخ جميل وقصة يرويها.

Now, this family that belonged to the Ottoman Haifa span the continents through Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the U.S.A.

Every member of this family has a beautiful history and a story to tell.

في هذه المدونة نشجع كل عضو من هذه الأسرة الإنضمام لجهودنا لبلورة وسرد قصة عائلة الصلاح. ندعو جميع أفراد الأسرة بالتعاون وتوثيق تاريخنا وإمدادنا بالقصص والصور التاريخية لتراث العائلة لعلاها تصبح كنزا ومرجعا لجيل المستقبل من عائلتنا. عائلة الصلاح.

In this site, we encourage every member of this family to join our efforts to shape and clarify the story of our family, the AlSalah family that we belong to. We invite all family members to cooperate and document our history and provide us with stories and pictures of our family heritage, to make a treasure and a reference for the future generation of the AlSalah family.

 قصتنا هنا تبدأ , من مرجع قديم  / 

كتاب أتحاف الأعزة في تاريخ غزة / المجلد الثالث / العائلات والأنساب / للشيخ عثمان مصطفى الطباع مواليد غزة عام 1882م (1300ه) , الطبعة الأولى عام 1999 عن مكتبة اليازجي ـ شارع الوحدة ـ غزة / صفحة 284 و 285

This edition of our  story starts, in accordance with the book titled:

Precious Memories in the History of Gaza / Volume III / Families and Genealogy / by Sheikh Othman Mustafa Al-Tabaa, born in Gaza in 1882 AD (1300 AH), the first edition in 1999 on the Yaziji Library - Al-Wehda Street - Gaza / page 284 and 285

وسرد بالكتاب نبذة عن عائلة الصلاح  بالإضافة لنسخة غير دقيقة من شجرة عائلة الصلاح التي حصل عليها الكاتب من / ناجي بيك أحمد مصطفى أحمد الصلاح 

هذه النسخة من شجرة العائلة يعتليها جد أجدادنا عبد الرؤوف الصلاح. ........ عثماني من مكان ما في الأناضول.

The book gave an overview of the AlSalah family, in addition to an old innacurate copy of the Salah family tree, which the author obtained from Naji Bey Ahmed Mustafa Ahmed Al Salah

This version of the family tree is topped with our great-grandfather Abdel Raouf Al Salah ......An Ottoman from somewhere in Anatolia.

The oldest AlSalah Family Tree

أقدم شجرة لعائلة الصلاح

 شجرة عائلة الصلاح تبداء قصتها وتفرعاتها بشجرة  محمد سعيد بيك الصلاح

ومنه تتفرع العائلة بأربع أفرع أساسية من أربع أولاد. 

The Salah family tree begins its story and its branches in the tree of  Mohamed Said Bey AlSalah

From this, the family is divided into four main branches relating to four main children.

The story of our Ancestors in one page

تاريخ أجداد العائلة في صفحة واحدة

المراجع

REFERENCES

Mahmoud Yazbak, in his book,

HAIFA IN THE LATE OTTOMAN PERIOD 1864-1914 A Muslim Town in Transition,

narrates:

“The Al-Salahs were the largest landowners in the qada' of Haifa, and among the town's largest merchants. A highly respected family, they were: given such diverse titles in the sijill as wajih(وجيه), Sahib al-rif’a (صاحب الرفعة), izzetlu (عزتلو), min al·dhawt (من الزوات), 'umdat al·majid al-kirim (عمدت المجد الكريم), fakh al-bikawat al-kiram (  فخر البكوات الكرام) and many more, As we already saw, 'Abdallah al-Salah, the head of the family, had been mutasallim of Haifa before Ibrahim Pasha, held the job for almost the entire period of the Egyptian occupation and was restored to it by the Ottomans after 1810. Other members of the family were also important officials, some in administrative systems outside Haifa. Two served as mayor of Haifa, Ibrahim Bey, who was elected to the majlis in 1870, and Rif’at, a majlis member in 1900 and then mayor in 1910.”

He adds:

“From the Sijil we learn that in the second half of the nineteenth century, at least where the title Bey is concerned, an individual need not necessarily have fulfilled an administrative function-the title could also indicate social

sta tu . For example ,six of the fourteen Haifa-born men carrying the title Bey, all members of the Khalil and Salah families, never had any administrative jobs.

Three were sons of Mustafa Pasha al-Khalil, one a son of the mayor Mustafa al-Salah and two sons of 'Abd al-Latif al-Salah, member of the nizami court.

Moreover, two of the six received the title in childhood.”

“The sijill contains many cases in which women were registered selling again olive groves which they had bought earlier. Women are also found to buy miri land. One case involved a woman from the Salah family who bought a large plot of miri planned for construction which she then resold in half-dunam plots, making a nice profit. The al-Salah daughters received such land in the eastern part of the town "by the broken down wall opposite the port customs house." This area soon became much sought after for the building of warehouses,and they, too, made a very handsome profit on it. Many wujaha' women- al-Salah, al-Najaml, al-Bashir, Hajj Ibrahirn and Taha appear in the sijill as having made profits by selling land they had inherited inside the city.”