Jayyusi clan

Al-Jayyusi (Arabic: الجیوسي‎‎; also spelled Jayousi, Jayoosi or Jayyousi) is a prominent Palestinian family whose members acted as local lords, army generals and tax collectors since the 15th century. They were the traditional leaders of the Bani Sa'b subdistrict (nahiya), which included their throne villages of Kur and Kafr Sur; Jayyus, the village from which their clan name was derived; and the villages of Qalqilya, Tayibe, Jinsafut, Kafr Zibad and Kafr Jammal, among others.

The Jayyusi family had served as the local rulers of the Bani Sa'b subdistrict (nahiya) since the 15th century, during Burji Mamluk rule in Palestine. When the area came under Ottoman rule, the clan continued to rule and was commissioned by the Ottoman authorities to protect the part of the Cairo-Damascus highway that ran between Majdal Yaba and Qaqun. As a testament to the continuing influence of the Jayyusi clan, Bani Sa'b was the only Mamluk-era subdistrict of Jabal Nablus to not be renamed.

In 1766, the Nablus-based Tuqan clan under Mustafa Beik, managed to gain appointment as the chief of Bani Sa'b, temporarily sidelining the Jayyusi clan. This seizure of power was the first time an urban notable family gained direct control over a rural subdistrict and the move put the Tuqan in conflict with Jayyusi allies, the Sanur-based Jarrar clan and the autonomous ruler of Galilee, Zahir al-Umar. The latter expelled the Tuqans from Bani Sa'b in 1771.

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