Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause

The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-64392-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 672 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

This book provides an historical overview of Palestine’s Christian communities and their role in the Palestinian nationalist movement during the late Ottoman and British mandatory periods.

More than being a history of Palestine’s Christian Arabs, the book focuses on Palestine’s Christians during the formative period of Palestinian Arab national identity, attentive to the broader topic of the relationship between nationalism and religion—in this case, between Arab identity and Islam. Whereas until recently historians have tended to assume that national and religious identities are distinct and mostly mutually exclusive things, more recent scholarship has addressed the fact that often there exists considerable overlap between the two, though it should be noted, often in ways that are not by any means inherently exclusive of those not belonging to the majority faith, as is the case here. The relationship is also an ever-changing one, hence the final chapter of the book, which functions as something of an epilogue regarding the current status of Palestine’s Christians vis-à-vis their place in the nationalist cause and relationship with the broader Muslim population.

The book will be of interest to historians and scholars focused on the modern Middle East, Palestinian history, Muslim-Christian inter-communal relations, and the relationship between nationalism and religion.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freas, Erik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – On Nationalism and Religion 1. Palestine's Christian Communities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 2. Zionism and Palestinian Arab National Identity 3. “The Great Danger”? Palestinian Christian Journalists and Zionism in Late-Ottoman Palestine 4. Building Communalism in Palestine: Muslim-Christian Relations under British Rule 5. When is a “Christian” Really an Arab? Or a Peasant? Intersecting Identities and Interreligious Relations 6. Brothers in Suffering: Palestinian Christians and the Great Revolt, 1936-39 7. Orthodoxy and Solidarity: Niqula Khoury’s Journey to the League of Nations 8. Testimonies of Christian Arab Leaders Before Investigative Committees in British Mandate Palestine, 1917-1948 9. Baraka without Boundaries: The Christian-Muslim Encounter at Shared Shrines in West Bank Palestine Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Erik Freas is the author of several peer-reviewed articles on late-Ottoman and British mandatory Palestine, as well as two scholarly manuscripts, Muslim-Christian Relations in Palestine during the Late-Ottoman Period and The Exclusivity of Holiness: The Role of the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount in the Formation of National Identities.