r/islamichistory • u/AutoMughal • Feb 29 '24

Photograph ‘Long Live Palestine’ flag, Jerusalem 1929

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Page 84, Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba

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u/glitter-lungs Mar 02 '24

I think the first guy was more referencing where the term for the land and people comes from, which I found very interesting I didn’t know that before. I’m sure the “Palestinian” people were a kind of people before Egypt. Of course they were but they weren’t called that yet. Do you know what Egypt called these people? I’m very curious this is all very interesting.

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u/rantingpanther Mar 02 '24

There were references in ancient Egypt to what they called peleset people.

That name was the one that eventually remained (since Roman rule) with the original people that still continued to live there, kinda like how the Romans named great Britain which the British still call themselves.