Nur Masalha

Palestine Across Millennia (eBook, PDF)

A History of Literacy, Learning and Educational Revolutions

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Produktbeschreibung

In this magisterial cultural history of the Palestinians, Nur Masalha illuminates the entire history of Palestinian learning with specific reference to writing, education, literary production and the intellectual revolutions in the country. The book introduces this long cultural heritage to demonstrate that Palestine was not just a 'holy land' for the four monotheistic religions - Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Samaritanism - rather, the country evolved to become a major international site of classical education and knowledge production in multiple languages including Sumerian, Proto-Canaanite, Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and Latin. The cultural saturation of the country is found then, not solely in landmark mosques, churches and synagogues, but in scholarship, historic schools, colleges, famous international libraries and archival centres.
This unique book unites these renowned institutions, movements and multiple historical periods for the first time, presenting them as part of a cumulative and incremental intellectual advancement rather than disconnected periods of educational excellence. In doing so, this multifaceted intellectual history transforms the orientations of scholarly research on Palestine and propels current historical knowledge on education and literacy in Palestine to new heights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755642960
• Artikelnr.: 63085732

Autorenporträt

Professor Nur Masalha is a Palestinian academic and historian and former Director of the Centre for Religion and History at St. Mary's University, London. He is currently a Member of the Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS, University of London. He is the Editor of "Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies," published by Edinburgh University Press. He is also the author and editor of numerous books on Palestine, including, Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History (2018); An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba (with Nahla Abdo, 2018); Theologies of Liberation in Palestine-Israel: Indigenous, Contextual, and Postcolonial Perspectives (2014); The Zionist Bible: Biblical Precedent, Colonialism and the Erasure of Memory (2013); The Palestine Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory (2012); The Bible and Zionism (2007); The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem (2003): Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion (2000); A Land Without a People (1997); Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of 'Transfer' in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 (1992). Professor Masalha also currently serves as a judge on the panel for the Palestine Book Award (London).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Literacy and Functionality: The
Scribal Schools of Ancient Palestine Chapter Two: Cities of Learning: The
Intellectual Revolutions of Byzantine Palestine (3rd-early 7th Centuries)
Chapter Three: Greek and Syriac into Arabic and the Palestine's Translation
Movement under Islam: Monasteries of Learning, Mar Saba and Arabic belles
lettres (8th -11th Centuries) Chapter Four: Latin Learning and the Crusader
Kingdoms of Palestine: The Library of Nazareth Chapter Five: The Golden Age
of the Islamic Law Colleges of Jerusalem:The Palestinian Madrasas under the
Ayyubids and Mamluks (1187-1517) Chapter Six: Legal Pluralism and the
Social World of Palestine in the 17th Century: The Azhar College of Cairo
and Palestinian Muslim Scholars Chapter Seven: The 'Azhar' of Palestine.
The Ahmadiyya Seminary of Acre (1782-1948) Chapter Eight: Modernity, the
Printing Press and Mass Literacy: The Educational Revolution of Late
Ottoman Palestine and the Mandatory Period (1860s-1948) Chapter Nine:
Humanism and Arab Nahda Education: Khalil Sakakini and Reforming
Palestinian Education Chapter Ten: Learning From Below:The Kuttab Schools
in Palestine (Muslim, Jewish and Christian) Chapter Eleven: Between
Professionalism and Cultural Nationalism: Palestinian Education in
Mandatory Palestine (1918-1948) Epilogue: The Libraries, Archival
Collections and Sharia Courts' Records of Modern Palestine Bibliography