Introduction : Nationalism and religious identification -- 1. 1917-1923 : Balancing religion and national unity -- 2. 1923-1929 : Christians and a divided national movement -- 3. 1929-1936 : Towards communalism -- 4. 1936-1939 : Standing aloof? Arab Christians and the great revolt --- 5. 1940-1948 : National strength through communal unity -- Conclusion : Nationalism and communal identification : Conflicting identities?
Summary
"Palestine's Arab Christian minority actively engaged with the Palestinian nationalist movement throughout the period of British rule (1917-1948). Relations between Muslim and Christian Arabs were sometimes strained, yet in Palestine, as in other parts of the world, communalism became a specific response to political circumstances. While Arab Christians first adopted an Arab nationalist identity, a series of outside pressures -- including British policies, the rise of a religious conflict between Jews and Muslims, and an increase in Islamic identification among some Arabs -- led Christians to adhere to more politicized religious groupings by the 1940s. Yet despite that shift Christians remained fully nationalist, insisting that they could be both Arab and Christian"-- Provided by publisher
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Notes
Noah Haiduc-Dale is Assistant Professor of History at Centenary College, New Jersey
