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A Palestinian Life (1885–1954)

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‘The House of the Priest’

A Palestinian Life (1885–1954)

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'The House of the Priest’ presents and discusses the hitherto unpublished and untranslated memoirs of Niqula Khoury, a senior member of the Orthodox Church and Arab nationalist in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine. It discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion, diplomacy and identity in the Middle East in the interwar period. This original annotated translation and accompanying articles provide a thorough explication of Khoury’s memoirs and their significance for the social, political and religious histories of twentieth-century Palestine and Arab relations with the Greek Orthodox church. Khoury played a major role in these dynamics as a leading member of the fight for Arab presence in the Greek-dominated clergy, and for an independent Palestine, travelling in 1937 to Eastern Europe and the League of Nations on behalf of the national movement. (https://brill.com/edcollbook-oa/title/62287)

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Pages
213

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First Sentence

"Let’s start at the beginning, with the startling opening of Nikula Khoury’s memoirs, with his assertion that he had lost the materials for his memoirs not once and not twice but three times, because of the 1910 Karak Revolt and the First World War and the nakba."

Table of Contents

Foreword. Khoury’s Memoirs as a Palestinian Palimpsest
Page ix
Cyrus Schayegh
Notes on Contributors
Page xiii
Notes on Transliteration
Page xv
Maps of Niqula Khoury’s Trips in the Levant, Western and Eastern Europe. xvi
Introduction
Page 1
Sarah Irving and Karène Sanchez Summerer
1. National Politics and Religion in Mandatory Palestine: Niqula Khoury and the Arab Orthodox Movement
Page 30
Konstantinos Papastathis
2. Eastern Orthodoxy: Snapshots on Arab Orthox in Palestine and Jordan from the Franck Scholten Photographic Collection, 1921–1923
Page 54
3. Memories Containing the Most Significant Incidents and Events That Occurred during My Lifetime
Page 68
Niqula Khoury, translated and annotated by Sarah Irving, Charbel Nassif, Vicky Moussaed, Konstantinos Papastathis and Karène Sanchez Summerer
Bibliography
Page 165
Index
Page 171

Edition Notes

This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC by 4.0 license, which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.

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Leiden, The Netherlands
Series
Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies, volume 7
Copyright Date
2022

Contributors

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Sarah Irving
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Charbel Nassif
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Karène Sanchez Summerer

The Physical Object

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e-book
Pagination
XVII, 195p.
Number of pages
213

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL59536259M
ISBN 13
9789004516885

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OL34311612W

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