Description
Book SynopsisTells the history of Palestine during the last decade of the Ottoman Empire, which reveals the nation emerging as a cultural entity. Through autobiographies, and unpublished maps and photos, this book discerns a particular bourgeois Palestinian public sphere, self-consciously modern and inexorably secular.
Trade Review"In
The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine, Salim Tamari extends his already significant contributions to the historiography of late Ottoman Palestine. In a collection of linked essays, he covers topics from sewage and city planning, to a nearly forgotten early Palestinian feminist, to Ottoman cartography and ethnography of Palestine. This diversity alone makes the point that Palestine is a site in which a vast array of historical subjects can be explored." -- Ilana Feldman * American Historical Review *
"Tamari offers a compelling and entertaining investigation of Palestinian society before and during World War I through eight essays investigating what he terms “'the remaking of Palestine.'" * International Journal of Middle East Studies *
"A valuable addition to our knowledge of Palestine in the late Ottoman and early British Mandate periods. . . .The mix of sociological approaches and historical depth is enlightening as evidenced by the themes the essays explore and Tamari’s fine analytical eye."
* Journal of Palestine *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1 • Introduction: Rafiq Bey’s Public Spectacles
2 • Arabs, Turks, and Monkeys: The Ethnography and Cartography of Ottoman Syria
3 • The Sweet Aroma of Holy Sewage: Urban Planning and the New Public Sphere in Palestine
4 • A “Scientific Expedition” to Gallipoli: The Syrian-Palestinian Intelligentsia Divided
5 • Two Faces of Palestinian Orthodoxy: Hellenism, Arabness, and Osmenlilik
6 • A Farcical Moment: Narratives of Revolution and Counterrevolution in Nablus
7 • Adele Azar’s Notebook: Charity and Feminism
8 • Ottoman Modernity and the Biblical Gaze
Notes
Bibliography
Index
