TY  - BOOK
AU  - Idinopulos,Thomas A.
TI  - Weathered by miracles: a history of Palestine from Bonaparte and Muhammad Ali to Ben-Gurion and the mufti 
SN  - 1566631890 :
AV  - DS125 .I35 1998
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - Ivan R. Dee
KW  - Jewish-Arab relations
KW  - Palestine
KW  - History
KW  - 1799-1917
KW  - 1917-1948
KW  - Ethnic relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-270) and index
N2  - The story of that one explosive moment in Palestine's long history that began with Napoleon's invasion of the Middle East in 1798 and concluded with the founding of the Jewish state of Israel in 1948. Here was the dramatic confrontation of world empires, the clash of Islam with the Christian West, the fateful ties of politics and religion, and the extraordinary transformation of Palestine from wasteland to dynamic country
ER  -