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

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