In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the presence of European Catholic actors in the Ottoman empire dramatically increased, particularly in the Palestinian provinces. The city of Jerusalem and its surrounding hinterland, referred to here by its Arabic name, Jabal al-Quds, witnessed a particularly intensive Catholic presence owing to its sanctified religious status. This article examines the ways in which the local Arabic-speaking Christian population of Jabal al-Quds interacted with these European Catholic actors. It situates these encounters within the wider scholarship on missionary encounters and cross-cultural interactions in the Mediterranean world, arguing that global historians need to pay greater attention to the inequalities embedded in many of these relationships and the frequent episodes of violent conflict they gave rise to. By inverting the standard Western gaze on Jerusalem and looking at these encounters from the inside out, the article seeks to restore local actors as important players within the global Counter-Reformation, albeit within a context of subjugation, conflict, and stymied mobility.

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龙骑兵、纹身师、工匠：17 世纪和 18 世纪的巴勒斯坦基督徒及其与天主教欧洲的相遇

在 17 世纪和 18 世纪，奥斯曼帝国的欧洲天主教势力急剧增加，尤其是在巴勒斯坦各省。耶路撒冷市及其周边腹地，这里以其阿拉伯名称 Jabal al-Quds 为称，由于其神圣的宗教地位，见证了特别密集的天主教徒的存在。本文探讨了圣城城当地讲阿拉伯语的基督徒人口与这些欧洲天主教演员互动的方式。它将这些遭遇置于更广泛的关于地中海世界传教遭遇和跨文化互动的学术研究中，认为全球历史学家需要更加关注这些关系中嵌入的不平等以及它们引发的频繁暴力冲突事件.