Extremism, ancient and modern : insurgency, terror and empire in the Middle East / Sandra Scham.
Near Eastern archaeology is generally represented as a succession of empires with little attention paid to the individuals, labelled as terrorists at the time, that brought them down. Their stories, when viewed against the backdrop of current violent extremism in the Middle East, can provide a uniqu...
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Table of Contents:
- The Middle East and me
- The passion will play : narrativity and resistance
- Gunpowder, treason and emplotment : motive, agency and trope
- "The fanged serpent of the mountain" : Kurdish resistance and the primeval hills
- "A true people like so many others the world has seen" : Bedouin insurgency past and present
- "Their hearts were confident, full of their plans" : Palestinians and Philistines
- "There was no king in Israel" : the early Iron Age in Israeli settler narratives
- "Realm like his was never won by mortal king" : Himyarites and Huthis in the Yemen
- "Our place here is but a deception" : Al-Andalus in Islamic ideology
- Epilogue: "Those who ignore history are condemned to retweet it"