Introduction -- Contrasting narratives of Palestinian identity -- Cultural life and identity in late Ottoman Palestine : the place of Jerusalem -- Competing and overlapping loyalties in Ottoman Jerusalem -- Elements of identity I : peasant resistance to Zionist settlement -- Elements of identity II : the debate on Zionism in the Arabic press The formation of Palestinian identity : the critical years, 1917-1923 -- The "disappearance of Palestinian identity: Groups- al-Madrasa al-Wataniyya, al-Shaykh Tahir al-Jaza'iriHamas, Hezbollah, Hizb al-Tahrir al-Islami, Islamic Jihad Movement, Islamic Liberation Party, Muslim Brotherhoood, Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)