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19th Century Pan-Islam and Zionism Movements
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on December 2, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
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late 19th century reform and adaptation
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many projects to create new               
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sometimes creating new nations out of old               
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Persia
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Egypt
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Lebanon
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Syria
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a new vocabulary for describing                    communities
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a collection of faiths, languages, and                  governing on the ground
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imagining a nation was not the only respond to political pressures
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the pan-movements
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many began to imagine political communities which transcended nations
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pan-               movement
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not all ideas translate in the nation-state
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pan-Islam
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argued that they spoke for all                   
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a nostalgia for a time when all members of a belief cohabited under one              roof
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integrated by faith, not by language, nation, ethnicity, not even                   
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to be ruled by a sultan or a latter-day             
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calling for the defense of Islam against the expanding Christian leaders
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Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (1839–1897)
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important              arguing for a this different model of utopia
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claimed to be an Afghani
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in fact he was from         
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didn't want to be identified as a             
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1884 moved to           
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began publishing an Arabic newspaper in Paris entitled al-Urwah al-Wuthqa, "The Indissoluble         "
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called for a return to the original principles and ideals of Islam, and for greater unity among Islamic peoples
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an alternative vision of what politics might look like in the Islamic world
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hearkening back to older models of               
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Al-Quaida
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sought to redeem an older, universal ideal
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Zionism
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unlike pan-Islam, Zionists had no state
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they had a nation of Jews
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but nowhere on the globe could you find a Jewish           
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that had been eradicated from the time of the            Empire
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the idea was one of return
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a return to a homeland called Zion, lost in previous                   
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a social and political act to remedy the problems of being a minority in a diaspora
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facing rising                       
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Russian nationalism in the 1880s and its               
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a place where they might project their idea of a nation which would return Jews to an ancient homeland
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this experience of being stateless in someone else's state nurtured Zionism
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to return home, required creating a home
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most Jews lived scattered around the world
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                 precedes and created reality
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just as in pan-Islam, it begins with major,                    figures
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Zvi Hirsch                    (1795-1874)
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was an Orthodox              rabbi who expressed views in favor of the Jewish re-settlement of the Land of Israel
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taking on messianic qualities
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Theodor            (1860-1904)
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an Austro-Hungarian journalist, playwright, political activist, and writer
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one of the fathers of modern political Zionism
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formed the World Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish migration to Palestine in an effort to form a Jewish state
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seen as a kind of latter-day,                Moses leading his people back home
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the              language is a new language
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it existed only as one would read in the Bible and sacred texts
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his message had to appeal to the many                            Jews
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we will find our moral bearing by                the Holy Land again
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many settlers began to return to Palestine, which was a province of the                Empire
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began to buy up land from the native          populations
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by 1914 some 60,000 Jews had returned and began to buy up, mainly the                lands of what is now Israel
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we see around Jerusalem an envisioning of rival models of a homeland for a people who had been              of a state
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they wanted a state carved out of the precincts of an                empire
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land will become the focal point for tensions for the                    and incoming groups in Palestine

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incumbant ⇒ incumbent
harkening ⇒ hearkening
millenia ⇒ millennia
invisioning ⇒ envisioning
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