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

24 • cHAPTeR 1 red Slip policy)^31 and on land purchases by Jews, were haltingly en- forced and largely ineffective whether due ...

LOcATING THe ZIONIST-ARAB eNcOUNTeR • 25 abdul hamid II in 1908 was designed rather to reinstate the Ottoman Constitution and pa ...

26 • cHAPTeR 1 turk revolution. to understand how al- Khalidi and Ben- Yehuda con- ceived of one another, then, it is critical t ...

LOcATING THe ZIONIST-ARAB eNcOUNTeR • 27 commencement that the college administration deemed to be overly sympathetic to Darwini ...

28 • cHAPTeR 1 clear link between “natural selection” and human racial hierarchies.^47 Given its role in the traumatic transplan ...

LOcATING THe ZIONIST-ARAB eNcOUNTeR • 29 racial thinking was a central part of the ways in which intellectuals and others to Pal ...

30 • cHAPTeR 1 Christianity amongst the Jews) and on local members of other Chris- tian denominations (such as Greek Orthodox an ...

LOcATING THe ZIONIST-ARAB eNcOUNTeR • 31 immigrated to palestine. as John efron and others have shown, iden- tifying the Jews as ...

32 • cHAPTeR 1 moment. Zionists and their supporters tend to prefer higher estimates of the Jewish population and lower estimate ...

LOcATING THe ZIONIST-ARAB eNcOUNTeR • 33 among the Christian population, about half were arabic- speaking members of the Greek O ...

34 • cHAPTeR 1 population of Palestine— Ashkenazim and Sephardim— some whose ancestors had resided in the holy Land for generati ...

LOcATING THe ZIONIST-ARAB eNcOUNTeR • 35 I focus on the ideas of Palestine’s Zionists^74 (rather than those of all yishuv reside ...

36 • cHAPTeR 1 another segment of the population of Late Ottoman palestine that has received substantial scholarly and popular i ...

LOcATING THe ZIONIST-ARAB eNcOUNTeR • 37 so on, should we not speak of arab Jews? While the phrase arab Jew might strike the ear ...

38 • cHAPTeR 1 complex identities and challenge oversimplified, presentist labels, the guiding principle I try to follow through ...

Chapter 2 Muhammad Ruhi al- Khalidi’s “as- Sayūnīzm”: An Islamic Theory of Jewish History in Late Ottoman Palestine e liezer Ben ...

40 • cHAPTeR 2 fraternity is “most natural and most desirable,” al- Khalidi expressed his disapproval of separatist Jewish natio ...

RUHI AL-KHALIdI’S “AS-SAYūNīZM” • 41 together with his coeditors on the encyclopedia board, believed that this broad range of re ...

42 • cHAPTeR 2 Hugo),^10 and al-­Muqaddima­fī­al-­masʾala­ash-­sharqiyya (Introduction to the eastern Question)— wished to under ...

RUHI AL-KHALIdI’S “AS-SAYūNīZM” • 43 Late Ottoman Palestine perceived and comprehended Jews, Jewish his- tory, and the emerging ...