User talk:Chaldeaan
Arabian Peninsula[edit]
Chaldean: You are incorrect, this isn't vandalism or original research. You haven't inserted any tags and didn't bother to discuss your rationale for blanking the entire section on medieval history. The citations are from published works by fairly well known authors and journalists which were were included in the article, and on the talk page.
Jeffries was a British Arabist who published the first English translations of the McMahon-Hussein correspondence. He was The Daily Mail, Dublin, correspondent and helped found the Palestine Information Center. His book, Palestine: The Reality, was the subject of a favorable review in The American Historical Review, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Oct., 1940), pp. 146-148 published by the American Historical Society (available via JSTOR). Page four of the book provides a complete discussion and description of the Left and Right wings of Ottoman Arabistan.
Butrus al-Bustani was a leading Arab nationalist who published two newspapaers, assisted the American University in Beirut with their Arabic translation of the Bible, and edited the first Arab Encyclopedia. Antun Saadeh was a Syrian nationalist who disagreed with al-Bustani's political views. The editor of Antun Sa'adeh: The Man, His Thought: an Anthology is Dr. Adel Beshara. He is a professor of history at Melbourne University, Australia.
Stanford J. Shaw was a Jewish historian see [[Category:Jewish historians]] who taught Ottoman history at Harvard and UCLA and was the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. His observations about the reorganization of the Ottoman Provincial Army for Arabistan, its headquarters at Damascus and its area of responsibility, were published by Cambridge University Press.
In any event, you could have readily verified the citations and quotes by simply following the links I had provided on the Talk:Arabian Peninsula page to the online versions at books.google.com
There is no basis for your objections. What you are doing violates the integrity of the article and constitutes vandalism.
The existing disambiguation page for Arabistan claims that Arabistan al-Saudiyah is another name for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Here is an extract from Jeffries Palestine: The Reality for your criticism and review: 'PALESTINE A DISTRICT OF SYRIA page 3 ... In classic Arabic Syria is called "Ash Sham," which means "The Left," and the significance of this name is emphasized by its being given in addition to the capital city of the country. Damascus (as we term it) also is designated by its inhabitants page 4 PALESTINE: THE REALITY "Ash Sham." Arabic speakers to-day, especially in Egypt, often call Syria " Barasham," or "the Land of the Left." The corresponding word in Arabic for "right" is "Yemen" (as we spell it), the word we use in English to indicate the south-western tip of Arabia. But the Arabic world also uses it in a more extensive sense, applying it in a general way to the whole peninsula. Traditionally the Arabs call the Arabian peninsula their right and the Syrian frontage to the Mediterranean their left, showing thereby that from of old the two lands have been the two integral wings of the Arab body. So therefore in the Arabic name of the country itself-and the Turks call it "Arabistiin" - we find implanted a refutation of the character which some of our politicians for their own purposes have sought to apply to it. They have amputated it: they belittle it. They would like Syria to be thought an enigmatic, scarce christened, ill-defined species of no-man's-land, hardly worth a mention, subordinate to Palestine. For them, not surprisingly, the part is greater than the whole.'
Here is an extract from 'History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, By Stanford J. Shaw, and Ezel Kural Shaw for your criticism and review: 'Era of Modern Reform the Tanzimat 1839-1876 page 85 The final step in Mustafa Resit's effort to extend central control into the provinces involved a major reorganization of the Army. In 1841... ...The Fifth Army, called the Army of Arabia (Arabistan Ordusu), was based at Damascus and put in charge of Syria, Cilicia, Iraq, and the Arabian Peninsula until 1848, when a Sixth Army, based at Baghdad, was created for the latter two.'
Here is an extract from Dictionary of the Holy Bible By Augustin Calmet, Charles Taylor, Edward Robinson page 789: 'The right-hand commonly denotes the south, as the left-hand denotes the north. For the Hebrews speak of the quarters of the world in respect of a person, whose face is turned to the east, his back to the west, his right-hand to the south, and his left-hand to the north. Thus Kedem, which signifies before, denotes also the east; and Achor, which signifies behind, marks the west ; Yamin, the right-hand, is the south ; and Shemol, the left-hand, the north.' Here is an extract from the Jewish Encyclopedia entry for Benjamin: 'In Rabbinical Literature: The name "Benjamin" is given various meanings by the Rabbis... ...Other rabbis interpret the name Benjamin as "son of the South," since he was the only son born to Jacob in Palestine, the others having been born in Mesopotamia, north of Palestine (Rashi ad loc.; "Sefer ha-Yashar," Wayishlaḥ, ed. Leghorn, p. 56b).' It hardly seems necessary to demonstrate the fact that the inhabitants of the peninsula connect the ancient borders of Syria, Lebanon, Canaan, Edom, Moab, Midian and etc. with the story of Abraham, his kinsmen, and the covenants
harlan (talk) 10:14, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
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