Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East

CONTENTS

Cast of Characters

PART 1—THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

The Origin of Milleticide

Old Ottoman Pluralism

The Sectarianism of Secular Nationalism

The Triumph of Sectarian Nationalism

PART 2—CREATING A JEWISH STATE

“Come Back, Sons”

“Redeeming the Land”

The Politics of Memory

PART 3—THE RESURGENCE OF SUNNISTAN

The Palestinian Origins of Sunni Milletism

The Islamic State

PART 4—THE CREATION OF SHIASTAN

PART 5—MODERN MILLETICIDE

The Spread of Sunni Revanchism

Chapter Thirteen

Communal Rupture

PART 6—HOLY LANDS TO HOLY COMMUNITIES

Chapter Fourteen

The Way Back: An Armenian Perspective

Chapter Fifteen

The Way Back: Shia Perspectives

Chapter Sixteen

The Way Back: Sunni Perspectives

Chapter Seventeen

The Way Back: Jewish Perspectives

Chapter Eighteen

Acknowledgments

Further Readings