God's Land: Blurring the National and the Sacred in Waqf Territory

From the Peace of Westphalia, territorial sovereignty has been a vital criterion for the definition of the Western nation-state. The dominance of national understandings of territory has led to many theorists assuming that this is the only form of political geography. An examination of the conceptio...

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Main Author: May, Samantha (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2014
In: Politics, religion & ideology
Year: 2014, Volume: 15, Issue: 3, Pages: 421-441
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