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- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Copyright
- Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
- ISSN
- 1473-348X
- eISSN
- 0950-3110
- DOI
- 10.1080/09503110.2010.488890
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
This article argues that the term waṭan (“homeland”) was used in new ways in Arabic texts describing Syria from the sixth/twelfth and seventh/thirteenth centuries. The authors of these texts understood waṭan in its older sense as an affective attachment to land but assigned it new meaning as a territorial category of political and religious belonging. By analysing first the use of waṭan in Arabic literature from the third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries and then its use in these later texts, this article proposes a re-evaluation of our assumptions about the role played by territory in defining political and religious allegiances in the pre-modern era and, thus, about the relationship between the pre-modern concept of waṭan and the modern concept of waṭaniyya, or “nationalism”.
Journal
Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean – Taylor & Francis
Published: Aug 1, 2010
Keywords: Adab literature; Waṭan, concept; Ibn Shaddād, ՙ Izz al-Din, author; Al-Isfāhānī, ՙ Imād al-Din, al-I⋅fahānī; Aleppo/Halab, Syria; Damascus/Dimashq, Syria; Syria–land tenure