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Palestine Across Millennia: A History of Literacy, Learning and Educational Revolutions

Palestine Across Millennia: A History of Literacy, Learning and Educational Revolutions

Masalha, Nur

Hardcover

General ReferenceIsrael & Palestine History

ISBN10: 0755642945
ISBN13: 9780755642946
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Published: Feb 24 2022
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.47
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In this magisterial cultural history of the Palestinians, Nur Masalha illuminates the entire history of Palestinian learning with specific reference to writing, education, literary production and the intellectual revolutions in the country. The book introduces this long cultural heritage to demonstrate that Palestine was not just a 'holy land' for the four monotheistic religions - Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Samaritanism - rather, the country evolved to become a major international site of classical education and knowledge production in multiple languages including Sumerian, Proto-Canaanite, Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and Latin. The cultural saturation of the country is found then, not solely in landmark mosques, churches and synagogues, but in scholarship, historic schools, colleges, famous international libraries and archival centres.

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