Historical Research for the Change of Religious Formation and the Problems of the Religious Minorities in Palesline

本报告共分五个部分。第一部分为“课题的提出、意义和研究的收获”，主要是对前人研究的批判性论证，以及本课题的理论研究和方法论。第二部分《近代巴勒斯坦基督教少数民族社会》是一部以奥斯曼帝国当局的人头税登记簿为基础，考察巴勒斯坦，特别是耶路撒冷及其周边地区基督教人口的人口分布和民族构成的专著。我可以在这篇论文中阐明一个现象，即基督教人口集中到耶路撒冷和民族分布的变化，作为他们在奥斯曼统治下迁移的结果。本文还讨论了当代以色列/帕雷斯丁地区基督教少数群体的实际状况，并试图对16 - 17世纪与近代巴勒斯坦基督教社区的状况进行比较研究。第三部分“伊斯兰教早期巴勒斯坦基督教社会”论述了伊斯兰教早期巴勒斯坦基督教占多数的社会政治状况。它包括对前伊斯兰时代基督教社会的研究和对巴勒斯坦基督教社会政治和社会状况的调查。第四部分总结了中东东方教会的历史。为以后与中东其他地区比较研究基督教社会的变迁和伊斯兰化提供参考。第五部分是巴勒斯坦前现代历史资料的列表，可用于相关主题。

This report consists of five parts. The first part titled "Issue and Significance of the Subject, and Obtain of the Research" contains critical verification of the previous researches as well as theoretical research and methodology of this subject. The second part "The Christian Minority Society of Palestine in the Modern Period" is a monograph examined the demographic distribution and the denominational formation of Christian population in Palestine, especially Jerusalem and its environs, based on the registers of the poll-tax recorded by the Ottoman authorities. I can elucidate in this paper a phenomenon of the centralization of the Christian population to Jerusalem and changes of denominational distribution as result of their migration under the Ottoman rule. This paper also discusses the actual conditions of the Christian minority in Israel/Parestine area in the present time and attempts a comparative study of the conditions of the Christian communities in Palestine betwwn the sixteenth-seventeenth century and the recent time. The third part "The Christian Society of Palestine in the Early Islamic Period" discusses the social and political condition of the Christian majority in the early Islamic period. It contains a study about Christian society in pre-Islamic times and investigation of political and social situation of Christian society of Palestine. The fourth part summarizes the history of the eastern Churches in the Middle East. It is added as a reference for the comparative study about the change of the Christian society and Islamization with other places in the Middle East. The fifth part is a list of sources of history of Palestine in pre-modern times, which can be used for the concerned subject.