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Jews and Muslims in the Arab world : haunted by pasts real and imagined
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- Creator
- Jacob Lassner and S. Ilan Troen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 393 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780742558410, 074255841X, 9780742558427, 0742558428
- OCLC
- ocm77830756
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 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
Subjects
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993- -- Peace.
- Jews -- Israel -- Identity.
- Jews -- Israel -- Politics and government.
- Jews -- Israel -- Attitudes.
- Palestinian Arabs -- Ethnic identity.
- Palestinian Arabs -- Politics and government.
- Palestinian Arabs -- Attitudes.
- Jews -- Israel -- History.
- Collective memory.
- Group identity.