Nur Masalha

Contests perception that Palestine has ever been devoid of literacy and education in its history and traces a new authoritative trajectory of intellectual development

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Literacy and Functionality: The Scribal Schools of Ancient Palestine
Chapter Two: Cities of Learning: The Intellectual Revolutions of Byzantine Palestine (3rd-early 7th Centuries)
Chapter Three: Greek and Syriac into Arabic and the Palestine's Translation Movement under Islam: Monasteries of Learning, Mar Saba and Arabic belles lettres (8th -11th Centuries)
Chapter Four: Latin Learning and the Crusader Kingdoms of Palestine: The Library of Nazareth
Chapter Five: The Golden Age of the Islamic Law Colleges of Jerusalem:The Palestinian Madrasas under the Ayyubids and Mamluks (1187-1517)
Chapter Six: Legal Pluralism and the Social World of Palestine in the 17th Century: The Azhar College of Cairo and Palestinian Muslim Scholars
Chapter Seven: The 'Azhar' of Palestine. The Ahmadiyya Seminary of Acre (1782-1948)
Chapter Eight: Modernity, the Printing Press and Mass Literacy: The Educational Revolution of Late Ottoman Palestine and the Mandatory Period (1860s-1948)
Chapter Nine: Humanism and Arab Nahda Education: Khalil Sakakini and Reforming Palestinian Education
Chapter Ten: Learning From Below:The Kuttab Schools in Palestine (Muslim, Jewish and Christian)
Chapter Eleven: Between Professionalism and Cultural Nationalism: Palestinian Education in Mandatory Palestine (1918-1948)
Epilogue: The Libraries, Archival Collections and Sharia Courts' Records of Modern Palestine
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