Toward a Medieval Corpus: Theoretical and Methodological issues

TY - ABST

T1 - Toward a Medieval Corpus

T2 - International Conference/workshop at the University of Copenhagen,

AU - Sabih, Joshua

PY - 2016/4/11

Y1 - 2016/4/11

N2 - In post-colonial, when most of nationalist historiographies began a bickering process of “sharing” the spoils / as it were, of the colonial historiography, subaltern historiographies found themselves excluded or silenced. This applies to one of the most politically and theologically charged and over-studied area, namely “Palestine” in for instance Arab-Islamic and Jewish (zionist) historiographies.This paper will present and discuss as a case-model of the subaltern historiography, the Karaite’s historicising theology of “Jerusalem” and “Zion”, which has been nationalised as politically Jewish in Zionist theology.

AB - In post-colonial, when most of nationalist historiographies began a bickering process of “sharing” the spoils / as it were, of the colonial historiography, subaltern historiographies found themselves excluded or silenced. This applies to one of the most politically and theologically charged and over-studied area, namely “Palestine” in for instance Arab-Islamic and Jewish (zionist) historiographies.This paper will present and discuss as a case-model of the subaltern historiography, the Karaite’s historicising theology of “Jerusalem” and “Zion”, which has been nationalised as politically Jewish in Zionist theology.

M3 - Conference abstract for conference

Y2 - 11 April 2016 through 13 April 2016

ER -