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

44 • cHAPTeR 2 title in the Ottoman Islamic religious hierarchy by none other than the shaykh al- islām in Istanbul.^15 Al- Khal ...

RUHI AL-KHALIdI’S “AS-SAYūNīZM” • 45 It would clearly be wrong to reduce al- Khalidi to an essentialized image of “a traditional ...

46 • cHAPTeR 2 Fortunately, Walid Khalidi located both Ruhi al- Khalidi’s original— a set of small notebooks containing somewhat ...

RUHI AL-KHALIdI’S “AS-SAYūNīZM” • 47 his article with al- Khalidi.^27 Between 1909 and 1910 Gottheil lived in Jerusalem, where h ...

48 • cHAPTeR 2 standing Islam and the Arab world. They were reading his work and he was reading theirs. Al- Khalidi’s decision t ...

RUHI AL-KHALIdI’S “AS-SAYūNīZM” • 49 directed based on internal textual evidence. Given the manuscript’s language, of course, th ...

50 • cHAPTeR 2 work, then, were basically educated Arabic- readers, especially those familiar with Palestine, though not necessa ...

RUHI AL-KHALIdI’S “AS-SAYūNīZM” • 51 just. Who can contest the rights of the Jews on Palestine? My God, his- torically it is you ...

52 • cHAPTeR 2 another source; this ezekiel passage, for example, is not mentioned in Gottheil’s “Zionism” entry.^47 Not only do ...

RUHI AL-KHALIdI’S “AS-SAYūNīZM” • 53 one beneath the dome of the Rock (qubbat aṣ- ṣakhra). Again, not only does al- Khalidi pres ...

54 • cHAPTeR 2 home. Nonetheless, if al- Khalidi was wondering, given the small scale of actual Jewish immigration to Palestine ...

RUHI AL-KHALIdI’S “AS-SAYūNīZM” • 55 separated the Mosaic religion from Jewish nationalism [al-­ qawmiyya­al-­yahūdiyya]^56 and ...

56 • cHAPTeR 2 citizenship; to “not permit” Jews to think of themselves in particular ways; to deny Jews “the right” to make cer ...

RUHI AL-KHALIdI’S “AS-SAYūNīZM” • 57 duties was no longer impossible.”^64 In this vein, Mendelssohn approv- ingly cites Jesus’s ...

58 • cHAPTeR 2 spheres and the imperative to make this distinction. For al- Khalidi, concerned as he was with matters of nationa ...

RUHI AL-KHALIdI’S “AS-SAYūNīZM” • 59 that Michaelis had misunderstood or misconstrued the impact of the Jews’ messianic expectat ...

60 • cHAPTeR 2 The Power of “Mendelssohn’s Theory” For our purposes, though, it is al- Khalidi’s understanding of Mendels- sohn’ ...

RUHI AL-KHALIdI’S “AS-SAYūNīZM” • 61 Jewish leader from Izmir, “are the greatest opponents of Zionism.”^77 Such, al- Khalidi inf ...

62 • cHAPTeR 2 agreement al- Khalidi had in mind is less certain.^84 Given al- Khalidi’s many years in France, one possibility i ...

RUHI AL-KHALIdI’S “AS-SAYūNīZM” • 63 assemblies— articulating what came to be known in modern Jewish historiography as “classica ...