Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Note on Transliterations xiii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1
Locating the Zionist- Arab Encounter: Local, Regional,
imperial, and Global spheres 15
Chapter 2
Muhammad Ruhi al- Khalidi’s “as- sayūnīzm”: An islamic
theory of Jewish History in Late ottoman Palestine 39
Chapter 3
“Concerning our Arab Question”? Competing Zionist
Conceptions of Palestine’s natives 93
Chapter 4
imagining the “israelites”: fin de siècle Arab
intellectuals and the Jews 131
Chapter 5
translation and Conquest: transforming Perceptions
through the Press and Apologetics 185
Conclusion 235
Bibliography 249
Index 269