Pt. I. 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. Defining Arab Palestine: historical geography, imagined polities, and sacred space. "My land [biladi]": the formation of Palestinian national consciousness and the quest for a modern nation-state. The call to arms: a mark of Palestinian nationhood. The Islamic movement: traditional Islam and Palestinian nationalism after 1987. Haunted by the past: The Islamists and the peace process
Pt. II. 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. Jews, Arabs, and modern biblical scholarship: academic politics and the politics of national consciousness. The emergence of Zionism: a secular and humanist narrative. Return, reclaim, and reconstitute. Accommodation with the Arabs of Palestine.
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Jews and Muslims in the Arab world : haunted by pasts real and imagined by Jacob Lassner. ISBN 9780742558427. Published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
