In post-colonial, when most of nationalist historiographies began a bickering process of “sharing” the spoils / as it were, of the colonial historiography, subaltern historiographies found themselves excluded or silenced. This applies to one of the most politically and theologically charged and over-studied area, namely “Palestine” in for instance Arab-Islamic and Jewish (zionist) historiographies.
This paper will present and discuss as a case-model of the subaltern historiography, the Karaite’s historicising theology of “Jerusalem” and “Zion”, which has been nationalised as politically Jewish in Zionist theology.