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Palestine A Four Thousand Year History | Quran Course
1 0. Introduction : Palestine As A Name Commonly Used Throughout Ancient History 3 min read 2 0.1 Palestine As An Official Administrative Entity 9 min read 3 0.2 From Palestine-focused Biblical Orientalism To The New Histories Of Israel 12 min read 4 0.3 Political Autonomy, Independence And Statehood In Palestine Over The Last Three Millennia 6 min read 5 0.4 From The Geo-political Term Palestine To The Concept Of Palestine: Cartography, Place Names And Social Memory 7 min read 6 0.5 Locating Palestine: The Methodological And Intellectual Framework 2 min read 7 1. The Philistines And Philistia As A Distinct Geo-political Entity 1 min read 8 1.1 The Philistines As Indigenous People: Epigraphic And Archaeological Evidence For Peleset And The Philistines 1 min read 9 1.2 The Name ‘ Cana’an’ In The Late Bronze Period 1 min read 10 1.3 The Name Palestine Takes Over From The Late Bronze Age Onwards 1 min read 11 1.4 The Names Piliste And Philistia In Assyrian Sources 2 min read 12 1.5 Iron Age Philistia As A Distinct Polity: The Country Of The Peleset From Gaza To Tantur (1200‒712 Bc) 2 min read 13 1.6 The Highly Developed Cities Of Philistia 2 min read 14 1.7 The ‘ Way Of The Philistines’: Palestine As A Transit Country And The Historic Road Of Via Maris 1 min read 15 1.8 Philisto-arabian Coins: Currency, Power And Autonomy In Philistia (6th–4th Centuries Bc) 1 min read 16 2. The Conception Of Palestine In Classical Antiquity And During The Hellenistic Empires 1 min read 17 2.1 The Greek Name Παλαιστίνη In Classical And Foundational Greco-hellenic Sources 1 min read 18 2.2 The Conception Of Palaistinê By The Founding Father Of History 3 min read 19 2.3 The Name Palestine In Aristotle’s Meteorology 1 min read 20 2.4 Palaestina On The World Map Of Ptolemy: The Use Of The Term Palaestina By Greek Geographers And Historians During The Seleucid And Ptolemaic Empires 2 min read 21 3. From Philistia To Provincia ‘syria Palaestina’ 1 min read 22 3.1 The Upgrading Of Palestine By Hadrian: The Official Designation Of The Province Of ‘syria Palaestina’ (135‒390 Ad) 4 min read 23 3.2 FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS: FROM ‘SYRIA PALAESTINA’ TO PALAESTINA 1 min read 24 3.3 The 1st Century Geography Of Palaestina By Strabo, Pliny The Elder And Pomponius Mela 2 min read 25 3.4 The Official Designation Of Palaestina By Classical Jewish Scholars 2 min read 26 3.5 The Rise Of Caesarea-palaestina 1 min read 27 4. The ( Three In One) Provincia Palaestina 3 min read 28 4.1 Caesarea Maritima As A Mediterranean Capital Of Culture: The City’s Metropolitan Elite 5 min read 29 4.2 Nicaea And Historical Ecclesiastical Representations Of Palestine: The Archiepiscopal See Of Caesarea 1 min read 30 4.3 The Emergence Of Independent Palestinian Church: Political Versus Religious Capitals In Palestine 4 min read 31 4.4 Latin Palestine 2 min read 32 4.5 Religio-cultural And Institutional Memories Of Provincia Palaestina And Modern Palestine 1 min read 33 4.6 Material Evidence And Powerful Symbols Of Byzantine Palaestina (παλαιστινη): The 1884 Archaeological Discovery Of The Madaba Mosaic Map 1 min read 34 4.7 The ‘ Athens Of Asia’ In Palaestina: Gaza As A Mediterranean Centre Of Classical Literature And Rhetoric 5 min read 35 4.8 Popular Religion And The Relaxed Setting Of Gaza: The Rose Festival Of Gaza 1 min read 36 4.9 Monastic School Of Gaza And The Monasteries Of Palaestina: The Desert Fathers And Mothers And Their Worldwide Impact 4 min read 37 5. Arab Christian Palestine 6 min read 38 5.1 Arabic Classical Poetry And Byzantine Palestine: Al-nabighah Adh-dhubyani 4 min read 39 6. The Arab Province Of Jund Filastin 1 min read 40 6.1 Palestinian Syriac Aramaic, Palestinian Arabic And Palestinian Toponyms 1 min read 41 6.2 The Continuities And Transformation Of The Province Of Jund Filastin 4 min read 42 6.3 The Extent Of The Arab Province Of Jund Filastin: From Marj Ibn ‘amer To The Red Sea 2 min read 43 6.4 The Secular And Sacred Capitals Of The Province Of Filastin: The Grandeur Of Ilya (bayt Al-maqdis) And Al-ramla Under The Umayyads 7 min read 44 6.5 Jund Filastin As The Richest Province Of Al-sham Region 5 min read 45 6.6 Coins Minted ‘in-filastin’ (‘ بفلسطين ’): Palestine Currency, Monetary Autonomy And Numismatic Evidence From Arab Islamic Palestine 3 min read 46 6.7 Reconfiguration Of Palestine Under The Fatimids: The Province Of Jund Filastin And The Military Governor Of Palestine 11 ) (متولي حرب فلسطين) Th Century) 4 min read 47 7. Between Egypt And Al-sham 1 min read 48 7.1 Palestine On Arab And Venetian World Maps (12th‒15th Centuries): The Maps Of Muhammad Al-idrisi (1154), Pietro Vesconte, Marino Sanudo And Fra Mauro (1450) 3 min read 49 7.2 Ayyubid Palestine And The Re-establishment Of Islamic Jerusalem In Post-crusade Palestine: The Decline Of Palestine’s Coastal Cities And Rise Of The Interior Urban Centres 3 min read 50 7.3 The Leading Role Of Al-quds Under The Mamluks: The Capital Of Mamluk Palestine And The ‘city Without Walls’ (1260‒1517) 2 min read 51 7.4 The Sea Versus The Mountain: Safad As A New Regional Capital Of The Galilee 2 min read 52 7.5 The Social Memory Of Palestine During The Mamluk And Early Ottoman Periods: Filastin In Local Muslim Social Memory 2 min read 53 7.6 The Mosaics Of Historic Palestine, Continuities And Transformation: The Palestinian Glasswork Industry Of Al-khalil And The School Of Mosaics Of Al-quds 3 min read 54 8. Palestinian Statehood In The 18th Century 2 min read 55 8.1 Revivalism And Rediscovery Under Ottoman Rule: The Arab Islamic Jurisprudence Of Palestine And Indigenous Memories Of Filastin Under The Ottomans (1517‒1860s) 4 min read 56 8.2 Al-dawlah Al-qutriyyah: Palestinian Statehood And The Regimes Of Dhaher Al-ʿumar And Ahmad Pasha Al-jazzar In The 18th Century 1 min read 57 8.3 History Of Urban Elites Versus History ‘from Below’: New Leadership, Palestine’s Cotton Trade With Europe And The Industrial Revolution 4 min read 58 8.4 Hourani’s ‘urban’ Elites Paradigm? 1 min read 59 8.5 Taxation, Frontier Provinces And The Rise Of Autonomous Power In 18th Century Palestine 2 min read 60 8.6 Nominal Sovereignty Versus Practical Sovereignty 6 min read 61 8.7 Reading The History Of Modern Palestine Through The Eyes Of The Indigenous People 3 min read 62 9. Being Palestine, Becoming Palestine 1 min read 63 9.1 New Representations Of Palestine, 1805‒1917 1 min read 64 9.2 Western Travelogues Of Palestine: The Distinction Between Palestine/ Holy Land And Syria 5 min read 65 9.3 Palestine-focused Russian Orientalism In The Late Ottoman Period 4 min read 66 9.4 Strategic Ambitions And The British Peaceful Crusade: Science, Empire And The Mapping Of Palestine By The Palestine Exploration Fund (1865–1877) 2 min read 67 9.5 The Historic And Geographic Maps Of Palestine: The National Geographic 1 min read 68 9.6 Paradigm Shift In Late Ottoman Palestine (1872‒1917): Historical Continuities And Administrative Division Of Palestine 7 min read 69 9.7 The Reimagining Of Palestinian Territorial Identity And Proto-nationalism In Late Ottoman Palestine: Khalil Beidas And Palestinian Cultural Nationalism 6 min read 70 9.8 ‘being Palestine, Becoming Palestine’ In Mahmoud Darwish’s Poetry 2 min read 71 9.9 Vernacularisation, Indigeneity And Modern Representations Of Palestine In The Palestinian Arab Press: The Newspaper Falastin (1911–1967) 3 min read 72 9.10 The Term Filastin In Ruhi Al-khalidi’s Unpublished Manuscript 3 min read 73 9.11 Historic Continuities And Colonial Transformation: Palestine As A Single Official Administrative And Territorial Entity Under The British (1918‒may 1948) 2 min read 74 9.12 Self-determination And The Proliferation Of Palestinian Nationalist Organisations: The Palestinian National Movement During The Mandatory Period 2 min read 75 9.13 The Short-lived Newspaper Suriyya Al-janubiyyah (1919‒1920) 4 min read 76 9.14 From Palestine To The Land Of Israel: The Palestine Communist Party (palestinishe Komunistishe Partei) 2 min read 77 9.15 Palestinian National Institutions And Organisations In The Post-nakba Period: The Revolutionary Politics Of The Plo 2 min read 78 9.16 Studia Palaestina: Palestine Studies And The Proliferation Of Modern Research Societies And Institutions 1 min read 79 10. Settlercolonialism And Disinheriting The Palestinians 8 min read 80 10.1 Hebrewisation: Antecedents To Zionist Toponymy 1 min read 81 10.2 From Karm Al-khalili To Kerem Avraham (1855): James Finn’s Colony 2 min read 82 10.3 Disappearing Palestinian Villages And Place Names Before 1948 1 min read 83 10.4 Appropriation Of Arabic Place Names, Indigenisation Of The European Settlers And Hybridisation Strategies 3 min read 84 10.5 Appropriation, Hybridisation And Indigenisation: The Appropriation Of Palestine Place Names By European Zionist Settlers 3 min read 85 10.6 The Pure Zionist Settler Colony And A Monolingual Mindset: From Palestinian Arab Masha And Sajara To Israeli Kfar Tavor And Ilaniya 1 min read 86 10.7 Judaisation, Hebraicisation And Biblicisation Strategies 1 min read 87 10.8 Zionist Toponymic Methods And Strategies In The Post-nakba Period: Key Features Of The Israeli Place Names Projects 1 min read 88 10.9 The Israeli Army’s Hebrew Names Committee Of 1949: Indigenising The European Settlers And Self-renaming 1 min read 89 10.10 Hybridity, Hebraicising And The Myth Of Restoration: Eliezer Ben-yehuda, The Committee Of The Hebrew Language And Founding Myths Of Modern Hebrew 1 min read 90 10.11 Hybridisation And Patterns Of Early Zionist Borrowing From, And Modelling On, Arabic And Aramaic 2 min read 91 10.12 Self-invention, Self-indigenisation And Self-antiquation: Personal Name Changing By Members Of The Predatory Zionist Ashkenazi Elite Of Israel 9 min read 92 10.13 Toponyms ‘from Above’ And State-supervised Projects: The Israeli Governmental Names Committee 2 min read 93 10.14 The Legendary Toponymy Of Zionist Settlers And The Latin Medieval Crusaders 6 min read 94 10.15 The Creation Of A Usable Past: The Power/ Knowledge Nexus 2 min read 95 10.16 Israeli Biblical Archaeology As A Secular Religion: Judaisation Strategies And The Assertion Of Ownership: The Superimposition Of Biblical, Talmudic And Mishnaic Names 4 min read 96 10.17 From Palestinian Majdal-ʿasqalan To Biblical Ashkelon 2 min read 97 10.17 The New Israeli Place Names And Landscape: Fashioning A European Landscape As A Site Of Amnesia And Erasure 1 min read 98 10.18 From Yerushalayim To Orshalim: The Transliteration Of New Hebrew Toponyms And Road Signs Into English And Arabic 1 min read 99 10.19 Epilogue: The Palestinian Multi-layered Identity, Toponymic Memory And The Diverse Heritage Of The Land 2 min read 100 Bibliography 24 min read 101 Notes 8 min read