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Islam under the Palestine Mandate: Colonialism and the Supreme Muslim Council

Islam under the Palestine Mandate: Colonialism and the Supreme Muslim Council

Roberts, Nicholas E.

Hardcover

Series: Library of Middle East History, Book 57

IslamIsrael & Palestine History

ISBN10: 1784531359
ISBN13: 9781784531355
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Published: Jan 30 2017
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

Concerns about the place of Islam in Palestinian politics are familiar to those studying the history of the modern Middle East. A significant but often misunderstood part of this history is the rise of Islamic opposition to the British in Mandate Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s. Across the empire, imperial officials wrestled with the question of how to rule over a Muslim-majority countries and came to see traditional Islamic institutions as essential for maintaining order. Islam under the Palestine Mandate tells the story of the search for a viable Islamic institution in Palestine and the subsequent invention of the Supreme Muslim Council. As a body with political recognition, institutional autonomy and financial power, the council was designed to be a counterweight to the growing popularity of nationalism among Palestinians. However, rather than extinguishing the revolutionary capacity of the colonized, it would become a significant opponent of British rule under its highly controversial president, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husayni.

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