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Historiography of Palestine in the Arab Press of the Early Mandate and the Question of the Formation of Palestinian Identity

Sayı: Kudüs’te Kimlik ve Mekan 30 Nisan 2025
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Historiography of Palestine in the Arab Press of the Early Mandate and the Question of the Formation of Palestinian Identity

Abstract

The development of Palestinian historiography in the Mandate period is closely related to the debate about how and when a distinct Palestinian identity has emerged. The findings of the scholars who have examined Palestinian historiography of the Mandate period through history books point to a later date for the development of the Palestinian identity than the one suggested by the scholars who have focused on that identity per se. The present study aims to contribute to this debate by focusing on the specimens of historiography published in Palestinian Arab newspapers in the 1920s, namely before the proliferation of books that treated the history of Palestine as a distinct geographical entity. It shows that in these specimens there were signs of an unmistakable attachment to Palestine and its history, as distinct from Bilād al-Shām, coupled with a strong emphasis on their Arab character. Rather than supporting the studies dating the formation of a “Palestinian Arab” identity to the 1930s at the earliest, it tends to corroborate the arguments that such an identity had crystallized by the years following the Great War at the latest, that the “Palestinian” geographical and “Arab” ethnic components within this identity were fused without one submerging the other, and that the Palestinian identity was separated from the broader Bilād al-Shām identity.

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Kaynakça

  1. Newspapers Filastīn al-Karmil Lisān al-Arab Mirʾāt al-Sharq al-Nafāʾis al-Asriyya al-Tabl al-Zahra Newspaper Articles and Series of Articles
  2. “Akkā bain al-Salibiyyīn wa Zāhir al-Umar, 1290-1750” [Acre Between the Crusaders and Zahir al-Umar, 1290-1750]. al-Zahra, 01.07.1925.
  3. “al-Arab fī Filastīn” [The Arabs in Palestine]. Filastīn, 28.12.1921-22.02.1922.
  4. “al-Ard al-muqaddasa allatī tusbihu watanan qawmiyyan” [The Holy Land That is Becoming a National Homeland]. Filastīn, 19.09.1929.
  5. “al-Āthār wa’l-funūn fī Filastīn” [The Monuments and Arts in Palestine]. Lisān al-Arab, 11.01.1923.
  6. “Bait al-Maqdis” [Jerusalem]. al-Karmil, 28.02.1923.
  7. “al-Farq bain al-Arab wa’l-Yahūd” [The Difference Between the Arabs and the Jews]. al-Karmil, 20.07.1929.
  8. “Fī ālam al-tārīkh: Abū Ubaida Āmir ibn Jarrāh” [In the World of History: Abu Ubaida Amir ibn Jarrah]. Lisān al-Arab, 18.03.1922.

Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Yakınçağ Ortadoğu Tarihi

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Nisan 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

16 Temmuz 2024

Kabul Tarihi

23 Ekim 2024

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Sayı: Kudüs’te Kimlik ve Mekan

Kaynak Göster

Chicago
Tezcan, Selim. 2025. “Historiography of Palestine in the Arab Press of the Early Mandate and the Question of the Formation of Palestinian Identity”. Bulletin of Palestine Studies, sy Kudüs’te Kimlik ve Mekan: 173-97. https://doi.org/10.34230/fiad.1517376.

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