Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History: Nur Masalha: I.B. Tauris

Palestine

A Four Thousand Year History

Palestine

A Four Thousand Year History

Description

This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history.

Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Palestine and its Palestinian identity have evolved over thousands of years, from the Bronze Age to the present day. Drawing on a rich body of sources and the latest archaeological evidence, Masalha shows how Palestine's multicultural past has been distorted and mythologised by Biblical lore and the Israel–Palestinian conflict.

In the process, Masalha reveals that the concept of Palestine, contrary to accepted belief, is not a modern invention or one constructed in opposition to Israel, but rooted firmly in ancient past. Palestine represents the authoritative account of the country's history.

Introduction

1. The Philistines and Philistia as a Distinct Geo-political Entity: Late Bronze Age to 500 BC
2. The Conception of Palestine in Classical Antiquity and During the Hellenistic Empires (500?135 BC)
3. From Philistia to Provincia 'Syria Palaestina' (135 AD?390 AD): The Administrative Province of Roman Palestine
4. The (Three in One) Provincia Palaestina: The Three Administrative Provinces of Byzantine Palestine (4th?Early 7th Centuries AD)
5. Arab Christian Palestine: The Pre-Islamic Arab Kings, Bishops and Poets and Tribes of Provincia Palaestina (3rd?Early 7th Centuries AD)
6. The Arab Province of Jund Filastin (638?1099 AD): Continuities, Adaption and Transformation of Palestine under Islam
7. Between Egypt and al-Sham: Palestine during the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Early Ottoman Periods
8. Palestinian Statehood in the 18th Century: Early Modernities and Practical Sovereignty in Palestine
9. Being Palestine, Becoming Palestine: Rediscovery and New Representations of Modern Palestine and their Impact on Palestinian National Identity
10. Settler-colonialism and Disinheriting the Palestinians: The Appropriation of Palestinian Place Names by the Israeli State

Product details

Published	15 Aug 2018
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	1st
Extent	459
ISBN	9781786992741
Imprint	I.B. Tauris
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Nur Masalha

Professor Nur Masalha is a Palestinian academic an…

[Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History] delves into the rich heritage of Palestine and Palestinians, revealing cultures and societies with remarkable depth and continuity … Eloquently presented and argued.

The Muslim World Review
Nur Masalha has produced an impressive work that challenges those who are trying to erase the Palestinians from history.

International Socialism
The attention to detail, as well as the rigorous explanation is impeccable. Every reading, or re-reading, of this book, will provoke new contemplation.

Middle Eastern Monitor
A sharp, powerfully understated denunciation of Israel's founding mythology. Masalha's narratives provide ballast and backstory to the contemporary claims of the dispossessed.

Publishers' Weekly
Masalha has done an extraordinary job, collating evidence from an abundance of rich sources, to give us a stunning narrative substantiating these identities.

Socialist Review
The most comprehensive English language history of Palestine to date. This book is a painstakingly researched and well-documented deconstruction of the myths too many Zionists and their western apologists have convinced the world to be factual history.

Counterpunch