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Jews and Muslims in the Arab world : haunted by pasts real and imagined
- Title
- Jews and Muslims in the Arab world : haunted by pasts real and imagined / Jacob Lassner and S. Ilan Troen.
- Author
- Lassner, Jacob.
- Publication
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2007], ©2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Troen, S. Ilan (Selwyn Ilan), 1940-
- Description
- xvi, 393 pages : maps; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- Jews > Israel > History
- Jews > Israel > Politics and government
- Group identity
- Palestinian Arabs > Politics and government
- Palestinian Arabs > Ethnic identity
- Jews > Israel > Attitudes
- Collective memory
- Palestinian Arabs > Attitudes
- Jews > Israel > Identity
- Arab-Israeli conflict > 1993- > Peace
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-374) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the uses and misuses of the past -- Pt. I. The Arab world : imagining the past, defining the present, anticipating the future -- 1. The Arab nation-state : marking modern identities by embracing pasts real and imagined -- 2. Defining Arab Palestine : historical geography, imagined polities, and sacred space -- 3. "My land [Biladi]" : the formation of Palestinian national consciousness and the quest for a modern nation-state -- 4. The call to arms : a mark of Palestinian nationhood -- 5. The Islamic movement : traditional Islam and Palestinian nationalism after 1987 -- 6. Haunted by the past : the Islamists and the peace process -- Pt. II. The modern state of Israel : integrating pasts real and imagined -- 7. A lexicon of Near Eastern identities : the Jewish people by various names and foundational narratives -- 8. Jews, Arabs, and modern biblical scholarship : academic politics and the politics of national consciousness -- 9. The emergence of Zionism : a secular and humanist narrative -- 10. Return, reclaim, reconstitute -- 11. Accommodation with the Arabs of Palestine.
- ISBN
- 9780742558410 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 074255841X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780742558427 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0742558428 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007001031
- OCLC
- OCM77830756
- 77830756
- SCSB-5348242
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries