Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: New Stories from the Old City 9781780265469

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Название: Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: New Stories from the Old City
ISBN: 9781780265469
Издательство: New Internationalist
Классификация:

Региональные исследования

История Ближнего Востока

Исламоведение

Политика и политический строй

Путеводители по путешествиям и праздникам

Путевые заметки

ISBN-10: 1780265468
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Вес: 0.00 кг.
Дата издания: 23.06.2020
Язык: English
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Beyond the crush and frenzy of a few tourist sites, the Old City within its medieval walls remains largely unknown to visitors, its people ignored and its stories untold. This book of stories lets the Palestinian and other communities of the Old City speak for themselves. Ranging from past to present, highlighting stories and personalities across faiths and outlooks, it evokes the depth and cultural diversity of Palestinian Jerusalem. Around the time the British arrived in the Holy Land, the idea began to spread that the ancient Old City could be divided by straight lines into four neat quarters, each defined by a faith community. The idea was false. Jerusalems people had always clustered together according to religious belief or ethnicity or geographic origin, but the city was undivided. Nonetheless, those divisions suited successive rulers, so today - more than a century on - they have become entrenched. Maps show Christian Quarter or Muslim Quarter as if they were real, defined places within borders. They are not. The reality of Jerusalem is a diversity and inclusion that belies imposed narratives of opposition, separation and exclusivity. This book evokes a sense of place through Jerusalems other, ignored quarters - its African and Indian voices, its Greek and Armenian and Syriac communities, its downtrodden Gypsy families, its Sufi mystics and its lost Moroccan Quarter. It discusses the sources of the citys holiness and the ideas - often startlingly secular - that have shaped lives within its walls. It links discussions of the citys finest mosques, libraries, churches and monuments through personal stories that, in many cases, have never been told before in English, and certainly not in an accessible, marketable form. This is not a travel narrative, or an academic study, and it does not fall into the trap of showcasing the preoccupations of an observer. This is Jerusalem itself. It is an evocation of place through story, led by the voices of Jerusalemites.

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