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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pelham, Nicolas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.