The Beginnings of the Humanitarian Era in the Eastern Mediterranean
The Beginnings of the Humanitarian Era in the Eastern Mediterranean
This chapter provides a broad overview of the text, outlines the main arguments and defines terms and ideas used throughout the book, including the concept of the objects and subjects of humanitarianism. It situates the book within the existing historiography of relief, charity, humanitarian intervention, and development. And it explains the book’s larger relationship with the contested histories of human rights.
Keywords: humanitarianism, humanitarian intervention, Islamic charity, human rights history, genocide theory
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