Holy Lands : Reviving Pluralism In The Middle East /
When the Ottoman Empire fell apart, colonial powers drew straight lines on the map to create a new region-the Middle East-made up of new countries filled with multiple religious sects and ethnicities. Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, for example, all contained a kaleidoscope of Sunnis, Kurds, Shias, Circass...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia Global Reports,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1: The decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire. The origin of milleticide
- Old Ottoman pluralism
- The sectarianism of the secular nationalism
- Millet wars
- The triumph of sectarian nationalism
- Part 2: "Come back, sons"
- "Redeeming the land"
- The politics of memory
- Part 3: The Palestinian origins of Sunni milletism
- The Islamic state
- Part 4: The creation of Shiastan
- Hashad
- Part 5: The spread of Sunni Revanchism
- Communal rupture
- Part 6: Holy lands to holy communities. The way back: an Armenian perspective
- The way back: Shia perspectives
- The way back: Sunni perspectives
- The way back: Jewish perspectives
- Milletocracy.