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The News Paper “Al-Quds” and the Beginnings of Modernization in the Liwa or Mutasarrifiyya of Jerusalem (1908-1914)
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Nermin Abbas
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مؤسسة الدراسات الفلسطينية
Publication Year: 
2024
Language: 
Arabic
Number of Pages: 
379
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Abstract: 

Was the newspaper Al-Quds a vehicle for advocating ideas for the formation of a modern society, and did it show how this objective could be attained? If so, how did the beginnings of modernization in the Province of Jerusalem manifest themselves in its pages?

To answer these questions, I begin by making two assumptions. The first is that the Province of Jerusalem as shown in the pages of that newspaper did indeed, since the late Ottoman era, experience the beginnings of modernization which refutes the view that it was European imperialism, in the guise of the British Mandate, which sowed the seeds of modernization. The second assumption is that the inhabitants of that province did indeed possess distinct cultural and nationalist characteristics and with deep roots in their homeland, contrary to one early Zionist myth which alleged that these inhabitants lacked any distinct cultural and nationalist characteristics, rendering it easy to drive them off their land.

ISBN
978-614-448-111-0
Edition
First
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Maher Charif is a Palestinian historian and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies. Among his other research interests the question of modernization in the Arab world, the means to attain it and its pioneers have been a principal concern. Among his books are Rihanat al-Nahda fi’l Fikr al-`Arabi (The prospects of Renaissance in Arabic Thought) [2002]; Hadathat Islamiyya ( Islamic Modernities) [2006, with Sabrina Mervin] and Al-Muthaqqaf al-Filastini wa rihanat al Hadatha (The Palestinian Intellectual and the Stakes of Modernity) [2020].