Jews and Muslims in the Arab World Haunted by

Jews and Muslims in the Arab World highlights the effects of historical memory on the Arab-Israel conflict, demonstrating that both Jews and Arabs use stories of distant pasts to create their identities and shape their politics. Whether real or imagined, the past filtered through their collective memories has had and will continue to have enormous influence on how Jews and Arabs perceive themselves and each other.

Jacob Lassner is Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Departments of History and Religion at Northwestern University.

Introduction : the uses and misuses of the past	p. 1
The Arab world : imagining the past, defining the present, anticipating the future
The Arab nation-state : marking modern identities by embracing pasts real and imagined	p. 13
Defining Arab Palestine : historical geography, imagined polities, and sacred space	p. 43
"My land [Biladi]" : the formation of Palestinian national consciousness and the quest for a modern nation-state	p. 65
The call to arms : a mark of Palestinian nationhood	p. 97
The Islamic movement : traditional Islam and Palestinian nationalism after 1987	p. 127
Haunted by the past : the Islamists and the peace process	p. 157
The modern state of Israel : integrating pasts real and imagined
A lexicon of Near Eastern identities : the Jewish people by various names and foundational narratives	p. 191
Jews, Arabs, and modern biblical scholarship : academic politics and the politics of national consciousness	p. 217
The emergence of Zionism : a secular and humanist narrative	p. 247
Return, reclaim, reconstitute	p. 283
Accommodation with the Arabs of Palestine	p. 325
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Jews and Muslims in the Arab World Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined

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