Screen LibraryJews and Muslims in the Arab world：haunted by pasts real and imagined
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Rowman & Littlefield,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xvi, 393 p.: maps ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780742558410 (cloth : alk. paper) 074255841X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780742558427 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0742558428 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D815 |
| CLC: | D815.4 |
| Call Number: | D815.4/L347 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-374) and index. Pt. I. The Arab world: imagining the past, defining the present, anticipating the future. The Arab nation-state: marking modern identities by embracing pasts real and imagined. Defining Arab Palestine: historical geography, imagined polities, and sacred space. "My land [biladi]": the formation of Palestinian national consciousness and the quest for a modern nation-state. The call to arms: a mark of Palestinian nationhood. The Islamic movement: traditional Islam and Palestinian nationalism after 1987. Haunted by the past: The Islamists and the peace process -- Pt. II. The modern state of Israel: integrating pasts real and imagined. A lexicon of Near Eastern identities: the Jewish people by various names and foundational narratives. Jews, Arabs, and modern biblical scholarship: academic politics and the politics of national consciousness. The emergence of Zionism: a secular and humanist narrative. Return, reclaim, and reconstitute. Accommodation with the Arabs of Palestine. |