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Passages of Faith : Conversion in Palestinian villages (17th century).
The book sets out to explain the diffusion of Catholicism and Islam in the 17th-century district of Jerusalem through a detailed analysis of the changes of faith undergone by the inhabitants of some villages in the area (Dayr Aban,?uba, Bethlehem, Bayt Jala, Bayt Sha?ur and Ayn Karim). The way a new...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
2014.
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| Colección: | Göttinger Orientforschungen. Syriaca.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Body; Introduction; Chapter I Christians in Seventeenth-century Palestine; 1.1. The district of Jerusalem in the seventeenth century; 1.2. The distribution of the Christians in the seventeenth-century district of Jerusalem; 1.3. Christians in villages; 1.4. Non-Muslim minorities under Ottoman rule; 1.5. Conversion to Islam in the Ottoman Middle East; 1.6. Catholic Missionaries in Bilād al-Shām; 1.7. Conversion to Catholicism under the Ottomans.
- 1.8. The spread of Catholicism and Islam in the district. A map of conversionsChapter II Recording conversion in the Ottoman district of Jerusalem; 2.1. Recording conversion before the court; 2.2. The Islamic court's conversion certificates: the texts; 2.3. Recording conversion before the court, and its aims: some hypotheses; 2.4. Women's conversions; 2.5. Palestinian villagers go to court; 2.6. The "Registri" of the Custody of the Holy Land; 2.7. The friars' records of conversion to Catholicism, goals and recording procedures.
- Chapter III "And there is no one left in Dayr Abān who is not Muslim": conversion to Islam in the villages of Dayr Abān and Sụ̄bā3.1. Dayr Abān: a case of conversion en masse; 3.2. New converts summoned by the tax collector; 3.3. "There is no one left in Dayr Aban who is not a Muslim"; 3.4. Conversion and the payment of the poll tax; 3.5. Sụ̄bā: the conversion to Islam of the sons of Sālim; 3.6. Individual conversions and communal dynamics; 3.7. The characteristics of the Christian communities involved; Chapter IV The spread of Catholicism in the villages of the district of Jerusalem.
- 4.1. Bethlehem: un pauvre chétif village4.2. The spread of Catholicism in Bethlehem: contacts with the friars; 4.3. Familial ties and the diffusion of Catholicism; 4.4. Converts and their former coreligionists in Bethlehem; 4.5. Franciscans' charity toward new Catholics; 4.6. The spread of Catholicism from Bethlehem to Bayt Jālā and Bayt Sahụ̄r; 4.7. The birth of the Catholic community of Ayn Karim: conversion or migration?; Chapter V Conversion and change in the distribution of the Christian Population; 5.1. The Islamization of Palestine.
- 5.2. Changes in the distribution of Christians during the Ottoman rule5.3. The consequences of the spread of Catholicism for the distribution of the Christians in the district.; 5.4. Change of faith and mobility; 5.5. Conversion and migration towards Jerusalem; Conclusions; Bibliography; Unpublished primary sources; Secondary literature; Index.