Religious Politics in Mandate Palestine: The Christian Orthodox Community Controversy in the Thirties

Papastathis, Konstantinos

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“…As such, they neither had the right to intervene in patriarchal affairs, nor to put forward any claim over Greek national property. 57 On the other hand, the view put forward by Khoury about the existence of Arab patriarchs, which discarded the Greek narrative, was openly challenged by the hierarchy as a historical distortion constructed by the Russians.58 For the Patriarchate, the advocates of the Arab view quoted as evidence the work of the Greek patriarch Dositheos (1669-1707), who reported the existence of Arab patriarchs. However, according to the Greek side, Dositheos' reference was made "in order to justify the establishment of the Latins and other nations in the Holy Places".59 The Greek presence in the Patriarchate throughout its history is proven by a significant amount of historical sources, many of which are Latin.…”

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National Politics and Religion in Mandatory Palestine: Niqula Khoury and the Arab Orthodox Movement

Papastathis

2022

'The House of the Priest'

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Niqula Khoury was a prominent political and religious figure in late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine. By articulating diverse but at the same time contextually interlinked discourses, he represented the paradoxes at a first sight embedded in the transition from the traditionalist late Ottoman Empire to the modern age of nationalism within the framework of colonialism.1 On the one hand, Khoury was a conservative religious man, with respect for a traditionalist value framework and the dominant norms of social operation, holding fast to family ethics, social hierarchies and communal dividing lines. On the other, he was a homo politicus, with an active involvement at a local level in favour of the Young Turk Revolution (1908), and at a later stage an Arab Palestinian nationalist, and at the same time a charismatic leader of the Arab Orthodox congregation, representing its claims vis a vis the authoritarian administration of Church institution by the "foreign" Greek religious establishment.2 His 1 Muhammad Muslih, The Origins of Palestinian Nationalism

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National Politics and Religion in Mandatory Palestine: Niqula Khoury and the Arab Orthodox Movement

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2022

'The House of the Priest'

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Zananiri

2020

European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948

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In this introductory chapter to Between Connection and Contention, Sanchez Summerer and Zananiri lay out the genesis of the project, an overview of issues related to the study of cultural diplomacy in relation to Christian Palestinians during the British Mandate and review various theoretical approaches to field. They establish the conceptual grounding of this interdisciplinary volume, which engages with methodologies from history, cultural studies and international relations. They layout how this volume approaches and reconceptualises the agency of the different actors involved as central to both the production of culture and its operationalisation through cultural diplomacy.

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Diaspora-Building and Cultural Diplomacy: The Greek Community of Jerusalem in Late Ottoman Times and the Mandate

Papastathis

2020

European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948

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This chapter explores the history of the Greek diasporic community of Jerusalem in late Ottoman times and the formative years of the British Mandate. It focuses on the creation of the Greek Colony and its central community institution, the so-called Greek Club, as well as the role of Greek cultural diplomacy both with the Greek community and with Arabs of the Greek Orthodox denomination, in its development. It addresses the establishment and development of the Jerusalem Greek diaspora; its relation to the Greek state; and its links to the Orthodox Patriarchate. Overall, the chapter suggests that Greece could influence, but not control, the decision-making process within the community. The Greek diaspora was excluded from systematic influence in Church administration, lacking power over communal education, and hence politically dependent on the Church.

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Religious Politics in Mandate Palestine: The Christian Orthodox Community Controversy in the Thirties

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National Politics and Religion in Mandatory Palestine: Niqula Khoury and the Arab Orthodox Movement

National Politics and Religion in Mandatory Palestine: Niqula Khoury and the Arab Orthodox Movement

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Diaspora-Building and Cultural Diplomacy: The Greek Community of Jerusalem in Late Ottoman Times and the Mandate

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