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The first Intifada (1987)(1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993) split Palestinian society in the West Bank and Gaza Strip into two camps, one secular-nationalist, the other Islamist. The author examines the new identities that formed as a result of this split in a Bethlehem-area refugee camp. Drawing on the concepts of event as structurally transforming process, socio-political milieu, and Mannheimian generation units, he shows how the first Intifada gave rise to a generational dialectic that in turn produced new religio-political orientations. He concludes by suggesting an extension of the Mannheimian framework to take into account the dynamic effects of generation-unit tensions for collective solidarities.

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Th is paper explores how death and burial narratives -particularly those associated with Adam, the paradigmatic fi rst human being, in the Islamic religious literature known as qiṣ aṣ al-anbiyāʾ ("stories of the [Biblical] prophets") -relate to the discursive processes through which religious communities articulate lines of inclusion and exclusion in the formation of their collective identities. In conversation with Katherine Verdery (Th e Political Lives of Dead Bodies), who examines reburials of political fi gures in Eastern Europe following the 1989 collapse of the Soviet Union, this paper argues that Islamic narratives regarding the death and burial of biblical fi gures like Adam serve to re-appropriate, re-situate, and re-defi ne boundaries of identity and diff erence both among Muslims (e.g. male/public vs. female/private; Sunni vs. Shiʿa; ʿālim (scholar) vs. populist preacher) and between Muslims and non-Muslim monotheists, Jews and Christians, principally. Grounding the discussion, empirically, are a series of close analyses of various renditions of the story of Adam's demise as found in a range of mostly Sunni qiṣ aṣ al-anbiyāʾ materials. From these analyses, the paper off ers an expanded understanding of how religious communities, specifi cally, develop multiple and competing claims in an eff ort to "monopolize the practices associated with death" (Verdery).