Nationalizing a Universal Text: The Quran in Arafat's Rhetoric

Analyses Yasser Arafat's attempts to transform the text of the Quran into a nationalist story in order to mobilise the Palestinian people. It is argued that Arafat focuses primarily on the story of the Children of Israel in the Quran and succeeds, through major emendations of the story as it ap...

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