Name: Arab Christians in British Mandate Palestine: Communalism and Nationalism, 1917-1948
Author: Noah Haiduc-Dale (Author)
ISBN: 9780748676033

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Arab Christians in British Mandate Palestine: Communalism and Nationalism, 1917-1948

Author(s): Noah Haiduc-Dale (Author)

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication Date: 18 Mar. 2013
Language: English
Print length: 232 pages
ISBN-10: 0748676031
ISBN-13: 9780748676033

Book Description

This title shows how Arab Christians struggled to balance religious and nationalist identities in Palestine between 1917 and 1948. Noah Haiduc-Dale focuses on the relationship between Arab Christians and the nationalist movement in Palestine as the British Mandate unfolded throughout the first half of the 20th century. Evidence of individual behaviours and beliefs, as well as those of Christian organisations (both religious and social in nature), challenges the prevailing assumption that Arab Christians were prone to communalism. Instead, they were as likely as their Muslim compatriots to support nationalism. When social pressure led Christians to identify along communal lines, they did so in conjunction with a stronger dedication to nationalism. It tracks the history of Palestine’s Arab Christians and their relationship to Palestinian nationalism. It challenges the standard historiography of communalism which suggests communal identification is always in opposition to nationalist identification. It refuses to stereotype Arab Christian behaviour and belief based on the actions of a few individuals – instead looks at the variety of Christian activity during the mandate.

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AUTHOR APPROVEDExplores the relationship between Arab Christians and the Palestinian nationalist movement from 1917 to 1948Recent conflict in the Middle East has caused some observers to ask if Muslims and Christians can ever coexist. History suggests that relations between those two groups are not predetermined, but are the product of particular social and political circumstances. This book examines Muslim-Christian relations during an earlier period of political and social upheaval, and explores the process of establishing new forms of national and religious identification.Palestine s Arab Christian minority actively engaged with the Palestinian nationalist movement throughout the period of British rule (1917-1948). Relations between Muslim and Christian Arabs were sometimes strained, yet in Palestine, as in other parts of the world, communalism became a specific response to political circumstances. While Arab Christians first adopted an Arab nationalist identity, a series of outside pressures – including British policies, the rise of a religious conflict between Jews and Muslims, and an increase in Islamic identification among some Arabs – led Christians to adhere to more politicized religious groupings by the 1940s. Yet despite that shift Christians remained fully nationalist, insisting that they could be both Arab and Christian.Key FeaturesTracks the history of Palestine s Arab Christians and their relationship to Palestinian nationalismChallenges the standard historiography of communalism which suggests communal identification is always in opposition to nationalist identificationRefuses to stereotype Arab Christian behaviour and belief based on the actions of a few individualsNoah Haiduc-Dale is Assistant Professor of History at Waynesburg University.

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AUTHOR APPROVEDExplores the relationship between Arab Christians and the Palestinian nationalist movement from 1917 to 1948Recent conflict in the Middle East has caused some observers to ask if Muslims and Christians can ever coexist. History suggests that relations between those two groups are not predetermined, but are the product of particular social and political circumstances. This book examines Muslim-Christian relations during an earlier period of political and social upheaval, and explores the process of establishing new forms of national and religious identification.Palestine’s Arab Christian minority actively engaged with the Palestinian nationalist movement throughout the period of British rule (1917-1948). Relations between Muslim and Christian Arabs were sometimes strained, yet in Palestine, as in other parts of the world, communalism became a specific response to political circumstances. While Arab Christians first adopted an Arab nationalist identity, a series of outside pressures – including British policies, the rise of a religious conflict between Jews and Muslims, and an increase in Islamic identification among some Arabs – led Christians to adhere to more politicized religious groupings by the 1940s. Yet despite that shift Christians remained fully nationalist, insisting that they could be both Arab and Christian.Key FeaturesTracks the history of Palestine’s Arab Christians and their relationship to Palestinian nationalismChallenges the standard historiography of communalism which suggests communal identification is always in opposition to nationalist identificationRefuses to stereotype Arab Christian behaviour and belief based on the actions of a few individualsNoah Haiduc-Dale is Assistant Professor of History at Waynesburg University.

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Noah Haiduc-Dale is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Waynesburg University in Pennsylvania.

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