Mirage of the Saracen
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-28377-0 (ISBN)
Mirage of the Saracen analyzes the growth of monasticism and Christian settlements in the Sinai Peninsula through the early seventh century C.E. Walter D. Ward examines the ways in which Christian monks justified occupying the Sinai through creating associations between Biblical narratives and Sinai sites while assigning uncivilized, negative, and oppositional traits to the indigenous nomadic population, whom the Christians pejoratively called Saracens. By writing edifying tales of hostile nomads and the ensuing martyrdom of the monks, Christians not only reinforced their claims to the spiritual benefits of asceticism but also provoked the Roman authorities to enhance defense of pilgrimage routes to the Sinai. When Muslim armies later began conquering the Middle East, Christians also labeled these new conquerors as Saracens, connecting Muslims to these pre-Islamic representations. This timely and relevant work builds a historical account of interreligious encounters in the ancient world, showing the Sinai as a crucible for forging long-lasting images of both Christians and Muslims, some of which endure today.
Walter D. Ward is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Preface and Acknowledgments Note on Translation and Transliteration Acronyms One: The Beginnings of the Humanitarian Era the Eastern Mediterranean Two: The Humanitarian Imagination and the Year of the Locust: International Relief in the Wartime Eastern Mediterranean, 1914-1918 Three: The Form and Content of Suffering: Humanitarian Knowledge, Mass Publics and the Report, 1885-1927 Four: 'America's Wards:' Near East Relief and American Humanitarian Exceptionalism, 1919-1923 Five: The League of Nations Rescue of Trafficked Women and Children and the Paradox of Modern Humanitarianism, 1920-1936 Six: Between Refugee and Citizen: The Practical Failures of Modern Humanitarianism in the Interwar Eastern Mediterranean, 1923-1939 Seven: Modern Humanitarianism's Troubled Legacies, 1927-1948 Notes Select Bibliography Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.1.2015 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Transformation of the Classical Heritage ; 54 |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-28377-5 / 0520283775 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-28377-0 / 9780520283770 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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