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Palestine A Four Thousand Year History: List of Content.
0. Introduction Palestine As A Name Commonly Used Throughout Ancient History
0.1 Palestine As An Official Administrative Entity
0.2 From Palestine Focused Biblical Orientalism To The New Histories Of Israel
0.3 Political Autonomy Independence And Statehood In Palestine Over The Last Three Millennia
0.4 From The Geo Political Term Palestine To The Concept Of Palestine Cartography Place Names And Social Memory
0.5 Locating Palestine The Methodological And Intellectual Framework
1. The Philistines And Philistia As A Distinct Geo Political Entity
1.1 The Philistines As Indigenous People Epigraphic And Archaeological Evidence For Peleset And The Philistines
1.2 The Name Canaan In The Late Bronze Period
1.3 The Name Palestine Takes Over From The Late Bronze Age Onwards
1.4 The Names Piliste And Philistia In Assyrian Sources
1.5 Iron Age Philistia As A Distinct Polity The Country Of The Peleset From Gaza To Tantur 1200712 Bc
1.6 The Highly Developed Cities Of Philistia
1.7 The Way Of The Philistines Palestine As A Transit Country And The Historic Road Of Via Maris
1.8 Philisto Arabian Coins Currency Power And Autonomy In Philistia 6th4th Centuries Bc
2. The Conception Of Palestine In Classical Antiquity And During The Hellenistic Empires
2.1 The Greek Name In Classical And Foundational Greco Hellenic Sources
2.2 The Conception Of Palaistin By The Founding Father Of History
2.3 The Name Palestine In Aristotles Meteorology
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
3. From Philistia To Provincia Syria Palaestina
3.1 The Upgrading Of Palestine By Hadrian The Official Designation Of The Province Of Syria Palaestina 135390 Ad
3.2 Further Developments From Syria Palaestina To Palaestina
3.3 The 1st Century Geography Of Palaestina By Strabo Pliny The Elder And Pomponius Mela
3.4 The Official Designation Of Palaestina By Classical Jewish Scholars
3.5 The Rise Of Caesarea Palaestina
4. The Three In One Provincia Palaestina
4.1 Caesarea Maritima As A Mediterranean Capital Of Culture The Citys Metropolitan Elite
4.2 Nicaea And Historical Ecclesiastical Representations Of Palestine The Archiepiscopal See Of Caesarea
4.3 The Emergence Of Independent Palestinian Church Political Versus Religious Capitals In Palestine
4.4 Latin Palestine
4.5 Religio Cultural And Institutional Memories Of Provincia Palaestina And Modern Palestine
4.6 Material Evidence And Powerful Symbols Of Byzantine Palaestina The 1884 Archaeological Discovery Of The Madaba Mosaic Map
4.7 The Athens Of Asia In Palaestina Gaza As A Mediterranean Centre Of Classical Literature And Rhetoric
4.8 Popular Religion And The Relaxed Setting Of Gaza The Rose Festival Of Gaza
4.9 Monastic School Of Gaza And The Monasteries Of Palaestina The Desert Fathers And Mothers And Their Worldwide Impact
5. Arab Christian Palestine
5.1 Arabic Classical Poetry And Byzantine Palestine Al Nabighah Adh Dhubyani
6. The Arab Province Of Jund Filastin
6.1 Palestinian Syriac Aramaic Palestinian Arabic And Palestinian Toponyms
6.2 The Continuities And Transformation Of The Province Of Jund Filastin
6.3 The Extent Of The Arab Province Of Jund Filastin From Marj Ibn Amer To The Red Sea
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
6.5 Jund Filastin As The Richest Province Of Al Sham Region
6.6 Coins Minted In Filastin Palestine Currency Monetary Autonomy And Numismatic Evidence From Arab Islamic Palestine
6.7 Reconfiguration Of Palestine Under The Fatimids The Province Of Jund Filastin And The Military Governor Of Palestine 11 Th Century
7. Between Egypt And Al Sham
7.1 Palestine On Arab And Venetian World Maps 12th15th Centuries The Maps Of Muhammad Al Idrisi 1154 Pietro Vesconte Marino Sanudo And Fra Mauro 1450
7.2 Ayyubid Palestine And The Re Establishment Of Islamic Jerusalem In Post Crusade Palestine The Decline Of Palestines Coastal Cities And Rise Of The Interior Urban Centres
7.3 The Leading Role Of Al Quds Under The Mamluks The Capital Of Mamluk Palestine And The City Without Walls 12601517
7.4 The Sea Versus The Mountain Safad As A New Regional Capital Of The Galilee
7.5 The Social Memory Of Palestine During The Mamluk And Early Ottoman Periods Filastin In Local Muslim Social Memory
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
8. Palestinian Statehood In The 18th Century
8.1 Revivalism And Rediscovery Under Ottoman Rule The Arab Islamic Jurisprudence Of Palestine And Indigenous Memories Of Filastin Under The Ottomans 15171860s
8.2 Al Dawlah Al Qutriyyah Palestinian Statehood And The Regimes Of Dhaher Al Umar And Ahmad Pasha Al Jazzar In The 18th Century
8.3 History Of Urban Elites Versus History From Below New Leadership Palestines Cotton Trade With Europe And The Industrial Revolution
8.4 Houranis Urban Elites Paradigm
8.5 Taxation Frontier Provinces And The Rise Of Autonomous Power In 18th Century Palestine
8.6 Nominal Sovereignty Versus Practical Sovereignty
8.7 Reading The History Of Modern Palestine Through The Eyes Of The Indigenous People
9. Being Palestine Becoming Palestine
9.1 New Representations Of Palestine 18051917
9.2 Western Travelogues Of Palestine The Distinction Between Palestine Holy Land And Syria
9.3 Palestine Focused Russian Orientalism In The Late Ottoman Period
9.4 Strategic Ambitions And The British Peaceful Crusade Science Empire And The Mapping Of Palestine By The Palestine Exploration Fund 18651877
9.5 The Historic And Geographic Maps Of Palestine The National Geographic
9.6 Paradigm Shift In Late Ottoman Palestine 18721917 Historical Continuities And Administrative Division Of Palestine
9.7 The Reimagining Of Palestinian Territorial Identity And Proto Nationalism In Late Ottoman Palestine Khalil Beidas And Palestinian Cultural Nationalism
9.8 Being Palestine Becoming Palestine In Mahmoud Darwishs Poetry
9.9 Vernacularisation Indigeneity And Modern Representations Of Palestine In The Palestinian Arab Press The Newspaper Falastin 19111967
9.10 The Term Filastin In Ruhi Al Khalidis Unpublished Manuscript
9.11 Historic Continuities And Colonial Transformation Palestine As A Single Official Administrative And Territorial Entity Under The British 1918may 1948
9.12 Self Determination And The Proliferation Of Palestinian Nationalist Organisations The Palestinian National Movement During The Mandatory Period
9.13 The Short Lived Newspaper Suriyya Al Janubiyyah 19191920
9.14 From Palestine To The Land Of Israel The Palestine Communist Party Palestinishe Komunistishe Partei
9.15 Palestinian National Institutions And Organisations In The Post Nakba Period The Revolutionary Politics Of The Plo
9.16 Studia Palaestina Palestine Studies And The Proliferation Of Modern Research Societies And Institutions
10. Settlercolonialism And Disinheriting The Palestinians
10.1 Hebrewisation Antecedents To Zionist Toponymy
10.2 From Karm Al Khalili To Kerem Avraham 1855 James Finns Colony
10.3 Disappearing Palestinian Villages And Place Names Before 1948
10.4 Appropriation Of Arabic Place Names Indigenisation Of The European Settlers And Hybridisation Strategies
10.5 Appropriation Hybridisation And Indigenisation The Appropriation Of Palestine Place Names By European Zionist Settlers
10.6 The Pure Zionist Settler Colony And A Monolingual Mindset From Palestinian Arab Masha And Sajara To Israeli Kfar Tavor And Ilaniya
10.7 Judaisation Hebraicisation And Biblicisation Strategies
10.8 Zionist Toponymic Methods And Strategies In The Post Nakba Period Key Features Of The Israeli Place Names Projects
10.9 The Israeli Armys Hebrew Names Committee Of 1949 Indigenising The European Settlers And Self Renaming
10.10 Hybridity Hebraicising And The Myth Of Restoration Eliezer Ben Yehuda The Committee Of The Hebrew Language And Founding Myths Of Modern Hebrew
10.11 Hybridisation And Patterns Of Early Zionist Borrowing From And Modelling On Arabic And Aramaic
10.12 Self Invention Self Indigenisation And Self Antiquation Personal Name Changing By Members Of The Predatory Zionist Ashkenazi Elite Of Israel
10.13 Toponyms From Above And State Supervised Projects The Israeli Governmental Names Committee
10.14 The Legendary Toponymy Of Zionist Settlers And The Latin Medieval Crusaders
10.15 The Creation Of A Usable Past The Power Knowledge Nexus
10.16 Israeli Biblical Archaeology As A Secular Religion Judaisation Strategies And The Assertion Of Ownership The Superimposition Of Biblical Talmudic And Mishnaic Names
10.17 From Palestinian Majdal Asqalan To Biblical Ashkelon
10.17 The New Israeli Place Names And Landscape Fashioning A European Landscape As A Site Of Amnesia And Erasure
10.18 From Yerushalayim To Orshalim The Transliteration Of New Hebrew Toponyms And Road Signs Into English And Arabic
10.19 Epilogue The Palestinian Multi Layered Identity Toponymic Memory And The Diverse Heritage Of The Land
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