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Author Pelham, Nicolas, author.

Title Holy lands : reviving pluralism in the Middle East / Nicolas Pelham.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Columbia Global Reports, [2016]
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  201.5 PELHAM    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  201.5 PELHAM    Check Shelf
Description 183 pages : maps ; 19 cm
Contents 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.
Subject Religious pluralism -- Middle East.
Religious tolerance -- Middle East.
Religion -- Relations.
Middle East -- History.
ISBN 9780990976349
0990976343
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