Author: John MillsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752583312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.
Three Months Residence Nablus, and an account of The Modern Samaritans
Author: John MillsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752583312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.
Three Months' Residence at Nablus
Author: John MillsAn Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians
Author: Edward William LaneThe Samaritans
Author: Reinhard PummerPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802867685
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Most people associate the term "Samaritan" exclusively with the New Testament stories about the Good Samaritan and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well. Very few are aware that a small community of about 750 Samaritans still lives today in Palestine and Israel; they view themselves as the true Israelites, having resided in their birthplace for thousands of years and preserving unchanged the revelation given to Moses in the Torah. Reinhard Pummer, one of the world's foremost experts on Samaritanism, offers in this book a comprehensive introduction to the people identified as Samaritans in both biblical and nonbiblical sources. Besides analyzing the literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources, he examines the Samaritans' history, their geographical distribution, their version of the Pentateuch, their rituals and customs, and their situation today.
An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians
Author: Edward William LanePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336812224X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East
Author: Paul S RowePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317233786
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
The Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East gathers a diverse team of international scholars, each of whom provides unique expertise into the status and prospects of minority populations in the region. The dramatic events of the past decade, from the Arab Spring protests to the rise of the Islamic state, have brought the status of these populations onto centre stage. The overturn of various long-term autocratic governments in states such as Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, and the ongoing threat to government stability in Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon have all contributed to a new assertion of majoritarian politics amid demands for democratization and regime change. In the midst of the dramatic changes and latent armed conflict, minority populations have been targeted, marginalized, and victimized. Calls for social and political change have led many to contemplate the ways in which citizenship and governance may be changed to accommodate minorities – or indeed if such change is possible. At a time when the survival of minority populations and the utility of the label minority has been challenged, this handbook answers the following set of research questions.What are the unique challenges of minority populations in the Middle East? How do minority populations integrate into their host societies, both as a function of their own internal choices, and as a response to majoritarian consensus on their status? Finally, given their inherent challenges, and the vast, sweeping changes that have taken place in the region over the past decade, what is the future of these minority populations? What impact have minority populations had on their societies, and to what extent will they remain prominent actors in their respective settings? This handbook presents leading-edge research on a wide variety of religious, ethnic, and other minority populations. By reclaiming the notion of minorities in Middle Eastern settings, we seek to highlight the agency of minority communities in defining their past, present, and future.
Palestine in the Victorian Age
Author: Gabriel PolleyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755643151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Narratives of the modern history of Palestine/Israel often begin with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Britain's arrival in 1917. However, this work argues that the contest over Palestine has its roots deep in the 19th century, with Victorians who first cast the Holy Land as an area to be possessed by empire, then began to devise schemes for its settler colonization. The product of historical research among almost forgotten guidebooks, archives and newspaper clippings, this book presents a previously unwritten chapter of Britain's colonial desire, and reveals how indigenous Palestinians began to react against, or accommodate themselves to, the West's fascination with their ancestral land. From the travellers who tried to overturn Jerusalem's holiest sites, to an uprising sparked by a church bell and a missionary's tragic actions, to one Palestinian's eventful visit to the heart of the British Empire, Palestine in the Victorian Age reveals how the events of the nineteenth century have cast a long shadow over the politics of Palestine/Israel ever since.
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