Remembering and Imagining Palestine

The book sets out to explore the history of Palestinian nationalism by asking if there were historical antecedents of this identity prior to the twentieth century, and whether this nationalism existed on every social level. It argues that such identity, or a kind of popular nationalism, did exist, aroused by the memory of the Crusades, the Holy Land, and the term Palestine.

'Remembering and Imagining Palestine , like Gerber's other works, males a valuable contribution to the field. Its arguments, which go beyond the those of Rashid Khalidi, are substantiated by his impressive bibliography which includes previously unknown Arabic praise literature from the Mamluks and Ottomans.' - Vivian Ibrahim, Nations and Nationalism

Autorentext
HAIM GERBER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Islamic Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He has written six books on the Ottoman Empire and the Modern Middle East, among them Islamic Law and Culture, 1600-1840, and Social Origins of the Modern Middle East.

Inhalt
Introduction The Wider Historical and Theoretical Context Elements of Palestinian-Arab Identity in the Past The Formative Period: 1918-1922 From Riots to Radicalization: 1922-1936 The Great Rebellion and its Aftermath Palestinian Ideology Palestinian Nationalism after 1948 Summary and Conclusion