Defining Neighbors. Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter - Jonathan Marc Gribetz

224 • chapter 5 the accusation that the talmud prescribes human sacrifice, that is, the problem of the blood libel.^150 in the e ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 225 are not all alike,” continues Sura 3, as “there are some among the peo- ple of the Book who are u ...

226 • chapter 5 estimate that the Jews of his day numbered “about ten million people around the world.”^160 Malul’s concise pres ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 227 his presentations of Judaism and Christianity, Malul notes that Islam is also based on a scriptur ...

228 • chapter 5 In other words, the tensions between religions are the result of “selfish- ness, self- love, egotism, and politi ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 229 Both matters were obviously of great consequence to Malul as they represent two of the central ra ...

230 • chapter 5 economics, anti- Jewish persecution, and anti- Zionism though the acquisition of wealth helped to preserve the D ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 231 Malul insists that “Muslims and Jews are beaten in Christian coun- tries, while Christians and Je ...

232 • chapter 5 pay him [Nassar] anything given that this [Nassar’s claim] was a fabrication, on the one hand. On the other hand ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 233 a more sympathetic view of Judaism and Jewish history (to combat antisemitism that was, itself, s ...

234 • chapter 5 resolution to the tensions if economics, rather than religion, were seen to be at the heart of arab opposition t ...

Conclusion U ltimately this book has explored the ways in which the categories of religion and race functioned within a complex ...

236 • CONCluSION one of the Muslim- Christian Association movement’s leaders, Maronite vicar Paul ʿAbboud, reminded his audience ...

CONCluSION • 237 are reminded of “the formal and repeated protestations of his holiness the Pope.”^8 Did not the Pope “make clea ...

238 • CONCluSION a conflict between groups that perceive themselves and their counter- parts in national terms. Did religious an ...

CONCluSION • 239 structure in place “to prevent or at least retard the rise of a nationalist nonsectarian notion of Arab identit ...

240 • CONCluSION and around al- Ḥaram ash- Sharīf, the Temple Mount, around the Jewish holidays of Yom Kippur 1928 and Tishʿah b ...

CONCluSION • 241 “Irrespective of Race and Religion”: A New Discourse of Difference in the Global Sphere If, despite their persi ...

242 • CONCluSION To understand the significance of the decisions by the authors of the mandate to make explicit reference to rac ...

CONCluSION • 243 a region in which one would be among the majority to those who differed from the majority in “race and language ...