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Palestine A Four Thousand Year HistoryNur Masalha
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Palestine A Four Thousand Year History

Khoury, Hatem Bazian, Faiha Abdulhadi, Niels Peter Lemche, Ella Shohat, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Maryse Gargour, Ilan Pappe, Issa Jubrael Sarie, Khalil Nakhleh, Adrian Beidas, Oren Ben-Dor, Rashid Khalidi, Ghada Karmi, Khalil Hindi, Iman Saca, and Ahmad Sa’adi. My special thanks go to Professors Thomas Thompson and Haim Bresheeth for their extraordinary generosity and insightful comments and to the two anonymous reviewers for their time and helpful advice. My family and friends have also been an ongoing source of inspiration and encouragement and this book could not have been completed without the support my wife Stephanie and my daughter Maryam; to both I owe enormous gratitude.

101 chapters

Chapters

  1. 10. Introduction : Palestine As A Name Commonly Used Throughout Ancient History8 min read
  2. 20.1 Palestine As An Official Administrative Entity23 min read
  3. 30.2 From Palestine-focused Biblical Orientalism To The New Histories Of Israel29 min read
  4. 40.3 Political Autonomy, Independence And Statehood In Palestine Over The Last Three Millennia14 min read
  5. 50.4 From The Geo-political Term Palestine To The Concept Of Palestine: Cartography, Place Names And Social Memory18 min read
  6. 60.5 Locating Palestine: The Methodological And Intellectual Framework4 min read
  7. 71. The Philistines And Philistia As A Distinct Geo-political Entity1 min read
  8. 81.1 The Philistines As Indigenous People: Epigraphic And Archaeological Evidence For Peleset And The Philistines3 min read
  9. 91.2 The Name ‘ Cana’an’ In The Late Bronze Period3 min read
  10. 101.3 The Name Palestine Takes Over From The Late Bronze Age Onwards2 min read
  11. 111.4 The Names Piliste And Philistia In Assyrian Sources4 min read
  12. 121.5 Iron Age Philistia As A Distinct Polity: The Country Of The Peleset From Gaza To Tantur (1200‒712 Bc)5 min read
  13. 131.6 The Highly Developed Cities Of Philistia6 min read
  14. 141.7 The ‘ Way Of The Philistines’: Palestine As A Transit Country And The Historic Road Of Via Maris2 min read
  15. 151.8 Philisto-arabian Coins: Currency, Power And Autonomy In Philistia (6th–4th Centuries Bc)2 min read
  16. 162. The Conception Of Palestine In Classical Antiquity And During The Hellenistic Empires1 min read
  17. 172.1 The Greek Name Παλαιστίνη In Classical And Foundational Greco-hellenic Sources1 min read
  18. 182.2 The Conception Of Palaistinê By The Founding Father Of History7 min read
  19. 192.3 The Name Palestine In Aristotle’s Meteorology2 min read
  20. 202.4 Palaestina On The World Map Of Ptolemy: The Use Of The Term Palaestina By Greek Geographers And Historians During The Seleucid And Ptolemaic Empires4 min read
  21. 213. From Philistia To Provincia ‘syria Palaestina’ 1 min read
  22. 223.1 The Upgrading Of Palestine By Hadrian: The Official Designation Of The Province Of ‘syria Palaestina’ (135‒390 Ad)10 min read
  23. 233.2 FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS: FROM ‘SYRIA PALAESTINA’ TO PALAESTINA1 min read
  24. 243.3 The 1st Century Geography Of Palaestina By Strabo, Pliny The Elder And Pomponius Mela5 min read
  25. 253.4 The Official Designation Of Palaestina By Classical Jewish Scholars4 min read
  26. 263.5 The Rise Of Caesarea-palaestina3 min read
  27. 274. The ( Three In One) Provincia Palaestina6 min read
  28. 284.1 Caesarea Maritima As A Mediterranean Capital Of Culture: The City’s Metropolitan Elite13 min read
  29. 294.2 Nicaea And Historical Ecclesiastical Representations Of Palestine: The Archiepiscopal See Of Caesarea3 min read
  30. 304.3 The Emergence Of Independent Palestinian Church: Political Versus Religious Capitals In Palestine9 min read
  31. 314.4 Latin Palestine6 min read
  32. 324.5 Religio-cultural And Institutional Memories Of Provincia Palaestina And Modern Palestine3 min read
  33. 334.6 Material Evidence And Powerful Symbols Of Byzantine Palaestina (παλαιστινη): The 1884 Archaeological Discovery Of The Madaba Mosaic Map3 min read
  34. 344.7 The ‘ Athens Of Asia’ In Palaestina: Gaza As A Mediterranean Centre Of Classical Literature And Rhetoric13 min read
  35. 354.8 Popular Religion And The Relaxed Setting Of Gaza: The Rose Festival Of Gaza3 min read
  36. 364.9 Monastic School Of Gaza And The Monasteries Of Palaestina: The Desert Fathers And Mothers And Their Worldwide Impact9 min read
  37. 375. Arab Christian Palestine16 min read
  38. 385.1 Arabic Classical Poetry And Byzantine Palestine: Al-nabighah Adh-dhubyani 11 min read
  39. 396. The Arab Province Of Jund Filastin1 min read
  40. 406.1 Palestinian Syriac Aramaic, Palestinian Arabic And Palestinian Toponyms3 min read
  41. 416.2 The Continuities And Transformation Of The Province Of Jund Filastin10 min read
  42. 426.3 The Extent Of The Arab Province Of Jund Filastin: From Marj Ibn ‘amer To The Red Sea5 min read
  43. 436.4 The Secular And Sacred Capitals Of The Province Of Filastin: The Grandeur Of Ilya (bayt Al-maqdis) And Al-ramla Under The Umayyads19 min read
  44. 446.5 Jund Filastin As The Richest Province Of Al-sham Region12 min read
  45. 456.6 Coins Minted ‘in-filastin’ (‘ بفلسطين ’): Palestine Currency, Monetary Autonomy And Numismatic Evidence From Arab Islamic Palestine9 min read
  46. 466.7 Reconfiguration Of Palestine Under The Fatimids: The Province Of Jund Filastin And The Military Governor Of Palestine 11 ) (متولي حرب فلسطين) Th Century)11 min read
  47. 477. Between Egypt And Al-sham1 min read
  48. 487.1 Palestine On Arab And Venetian World Maps (12th‒15th Centuries): The Maps Of Muhammad Al-idrisi (1154), Pietro Vesconte, Marino Sanudo And Fra Mauro (1450)7 min read
  49. 497.2 Ayyubid Palestine And The Re-establishment Of Islamic Jerusalem In Post-crusade Palestine: The Decline Of Palestine’s Coastal Cities And Rise Of The Interior Urban Centres8 min read
  50. 507.3 The Leading Role Of Al-quds Under The Mamluks: The Capital Of Mamluk Palestine And The ‘city Without Walls’ (1260‒1517)6 min read
  51. 517.4 The Sea Versus The Mountain: Safad As A New Regional Capital Of The Galilee5 min read
  52. 527.5 The Social Memory Of Palestine During The Mamluk And Early Ottoman Periods: Filastin In Local Muslim Social Memory5 min read
  53. 537.6 The Mosaics Of Historic Palestine, Continuities And Transformation: The Palestinian Glasswork Industry Of Al-khalil And The School Of Mosaics Of Al-quds7 min read
  54. 548. Palestinian Statehood In The 18th Century4 min read
  55. 558.1 Revivalism And Rediscovery Under Ottoman Rule: The Arab Islamic Jurisprudence Of Palestine And Indigenous Memories Of Filastin Under The Ottomans (1517‒1860s)10 min read
  56. 568.2 Al-dawlah Al-qutriyyah: Palestinian Statehood And The Regimes Of Dhaher Al-ʿumar And Ahmad Pasha Al-jazzar In The 18th Century1 min read
  57. 578.3 History Of Urban Elites Versus History ‘from Below’: New Leadership, Palestine’s Cotton Trade With Europe And The Industrial Revolution10 min read
  58. 588.4 Hourani’s ‘urban’ Elites Paradigm?2 min read
  59. 598.5 Taxation, Frontier Provinces And The Rise Of Autonomous Power In 18th Century Palestine4 min read
  60. 608.6 Nominal Sovereignty Versus Practical Sovereignty14 min read
  61. 618.7 Reading The History Of Modern Palestine Through The Eyes Of The Indigenous People8 min read
  62. 629. Being Palestine, Becoming Palestine1 min read
  63. 639.1 New Representations Of Palestine, 1805‒19171 min read
  64. 649.2 Western Travelogues Of Palestine: The Distinction Between Palestine/ Holy Land And Syria12 min read
  65. 659.3 Palestine-focused Russian Orientalism In The Late Ottoman Period9 min read
  66. 669.4 Strategic Ambitions And The British Peaceful Crusade: Science, Empire And The Mapping Of Palestine By The Palestine Exploration Fund (1865–1877)6 min read
  67. 679.5 The Historic And Geographic Maps Of Palestine: The National Geographic2 min read
  68. 689.6 Paradigm Shift In Late Ottoman Palestine (1872‒1917): Historical Continuities And Administrative Division Of Palestine16 min read
  69. 699.7 The Reimagining Of Palestinian Territorial Identity And Proto-nationalism In Late Ottoman Palestine: Khalil Beidas And Palestinian Cultural Nationalism14 min read
  70. 709.8 ‘being Palestine, Becoming Palestine’ In Mahmoud Darwish’s Poetry5 min read
  71. 719.9 Vernacularisation, Indigeneity And Modern Representations Of Palestine In The Palestinian Arab Press: The Newspaper Falastin (1911–1967)8 min read
  72. 729.10 The Term Filastin In Ruhi Al-khalidi’s Unpublished Manuscript8 min read
  73. 739.11 Historic Continuities And Colonial Transformation: Palestine As A Single Official Administrative And Territorial Entity Under The British (1918‒may 1948)6 min read
  74. 749.12 Self-determination And The Proliferation Of Palestinian Nationalist Organisations: The Palestinian National Movement During The Mandatory Period5 min read
  75. 759.13 The Short-lived Newspaper Suriyya Al-janubiyyah (1919‒1920)10 min read
  76. 769.14 From Palestine To The Land Of Israel: The Palestine Communist Party (palestinishe Komunistishe Partei)4 min read
  77. 779.15 Palestinian National Institutions And Organisations In The Post-nakba Period: The Revolutionary Politics Of The Plo4 min read
  78. 789.16 Studia Palaestina: Palestine Studies And The Proliferation Of Modern Research Societies And Institutions3 min read
  79. 7910. Settlercolonialism And Disinheriting The Palestinians21 min read
  80. 8010.1 Hebrewisation: Antecedents To Zionist Toponymy3 min read
  81. 8110.2 From Karm Al-khalili To Kerem Avraham (1855): James Finn’s Colony4 min read
  82. 8210.3 Disappearing Palestinian Villages And Place Names Before 19481 min read
  83. 8310.4 Appropriation Of Arabic Place Names, Indigenisation Of The European Settlers And Hybridisation Strategies8 min read
  84. 8410.5 Appropriation, Hybridisation And Indigenisation: The Appropriation Of Palestine Place Names By European Zionist Settlers8 min read
  85. 8510.6 The Pure Zionist Settler Colony And A Monolingual Mindset: From Palestinian Arab Masha And Sajara To Israeli Kfar Tavor And Ilaniya3 min read
  86. 8610.7 Judaisation, Hebraicisation And Biblicisation Strategies3 min read
  87. 8710.8 Zionist Toponymic Methods And Strategies In The Post-nakba Period: Key Features Of The Israeli Place Names Projects2 min read
  88. 8810.9 The Israeli Army’s Hebrew Names Committee Of 1949: Indigenising The European Settlers And Self-renaming2 min read
  89. 8910.10 Hybridity, Hebraicising And The Myth Of Restoration: Eliezer Ben-yehuda, The Committee Of The Hebrew Language And Founding Myths Of Modern Hebrew3 min read
  90. 9010.11 Hybridisation And Patterns Of Early Zionist Borrowing From, And Modelling On, Arabic And Aramaic5 min read
  91. 9110.12 Self-invention, Self-indigenisation And Self-antiquation: Personal Name Changing By Members Of The Predatory Zionist Ashkenazi Elite Of Israel22 min read
  92. 9210.13 Toponyms ‘from Above’ And State-supervised Projects: The Israeli Governmental Names Committee4 min read
  93. 9310.14 The Legendary Toponymy Of Zionist Settlers And The Latin Medieval Crusaders14 min read
  94. 9410.15 The Creation Of A Usable Past: The Power/ Knowledge Nexus5 min read
  95. 9510.16 Israeli Biblical Archaeology As A Secular Religion: Judaisation Strategies And The Assertion Of Ownership: The Superimposition Of Biblical, Talmudic And Mishnaic Names9 min read
  96. 9610.17 From Palestinian Majdal-ʿasqalan To Biblical Ashkelon4 min read
  97. 9710.17 The New Israeli Place Names And Landscape: Fashioning A European Landscape As A Site Of Amnesia And Erasure4 min read
  98. 9810.18 From Yerushalayim To Orshalim: The Transliteration Of New Hebrew Toponyms And Road Signs Into English And Arabic2 min read
  99. 9910.19 Epilogue: The Palestinian Multi-layered Identity, Toponymic Memory And The Diverse Heritage Of The Land5 min read
  100. 100Bibliography60 min read
  101. 101Notes20 min read