Index
Abbasid dynasty, 19.1, 20.1, 45.1
Abd al-Malik, Caliph, 3.1, 17.1, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2
Abdul-Aziz al-Saud, see Saud
Abdul-Hamid II, Sultan, 40.1, 40.2, 42.1, 43.1, 45.1, 46.1
Abdullah, King of Jordan, 45.1, 45.2, 47.1, 48.1, 49.1, 50.1, epl.1
Abdullah II, King of Jordan, 53.1, epl.1
Abdullah, Saud, K, see Saud
Abdulmecid, Sultan, 36.1, 37.1
Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of
Abraham, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 10.1, 15.1
Abu al-Abbas, Caliph, see al-Saffah
and Crusaders, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 25.1, 26.1, 26.2, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4
and Mamluk conquest, 29.1, 29.2
see also this page
Adam, 1.1, 3.1, 15.1, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2
Adams, John, President, 37.1, 42.1
Adiabene, Helena, Queen of, see Helena
Aelia Capitolina, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1
Afdal, Sultan, 26.1, 28.1, 48.1, epl.1
Afghanistan, 7.1, 16.1, 18.1, 45.1
Agnes, Queen Mother, 24.1, 25.1
Agrippina, Empress, 12.1, 12.2
Ahmet Jazzar Pasha, the Butcher, see Jazzar, Pasha, Ahmet
Aleppo, 22.1, 24.1, 26.1, 28.1, 28.2, 29.1, 31.1, 32.1, 45.1, 46.1
Alexander the Great, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 14.1
Alexander I, Emperor of Russia
Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, 37.1, 38.1, 39.1, 41.1
Alexander III, Emperor of Russia
Alexander Jannaeus, King, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, 24.1
St Alexander Nevsky Church, 14.1, 15.1, 41.1, 43.1
Alexandra, Empress of Russia, 41.1, 43.1, 43.2, 48.1
Alexandria, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 15.1, 16.1, 24.1, 29.1, 37.1
Alexandrium fortress, 10.1, 10.2
Ali (Caliph), 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 20.1
Allenby, General Sir Edmund, prl.1st Viscount, 39.1, 45.1, 45.2, 46.1, 52.1, 53.1
Amaury, King of Jerusalem, 24.1, 26.1, 26.2, 28.1
Amaury of Lusignan, King of Cyprus
al-Amer, Field Marshal Abdel-Hakim
American Colony, 40.1, 45.1, 46.1, 50.1, 52.1, epl.1
Amman, 51.1, 51.2, 52.1, 52.2, 53.1
Amr ibn al-As, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1
Anatolia, 7.1, 21.1, 24.1, 29.1, 30.1, 44.1, 45.1
Annas (high priest), 11.1, 12.1
St Anne’s church and monastery, 22.1, 23.1, 26.1, 30.1, 37.1, 44.1
Antipater, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2
Antioch, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 29.1
and Crusaders, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 26.1
Antiochus III the Great, King, 7.1, 7.2
Antiochus IV Epiphanes, King, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 14.1
Antonia fortress, prl.1, prl.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 18.1, 37.1
Antoninus Pius, Emperor, 14.1, 18.1
Antonius Felix, see Felix
Antonius, George, 48.1, 48.2, 48.3, 50.1
Antonius, Katy, 48.1, 50.1, 50.2, 52.1
Apocalypse, xxiii, prl.1, 5.1, 7.1, 10.1, 14.1, 16.1, 17.1, 18.1, 20.1
Jesus Christ and, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
al-Aqsa Mosque, 18.1, 18.2, 20.1
and Crusaders (Temple of Solomon), 21.1, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 24.1, 28.1
and King Abdullah’s assassination
and Mamluk sultanate, 29.1, 29.2, 30.1
negotiations and access, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3, epl.4, epl.5
Nur al-Din’s minbar, 24.1, 26.1, 28.1, epl.1
and Ottoman sultanate, 31.1, 32.1, 32.2
Arab Higher Committee, 50.1, 50.2
Arab League, 50.1, 50.2, 51.1, 51.2, epl.1
Arab Legion, 29.1, 49.1, 51.1, 52.1
Arab Liberation Army, 50.1, 51.1
Arab Revolt, 45.1, 45.2, 48.1, 51.1, 51.2
under Grand Mufti, 49.1, 49.2, 50.1
Arafat, Yasser, 50.1, 51.1, 53.1, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
Araunah the Jebusite, 3.1, 3.2
archaeology, 39.1, 43.1, 43.2, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
Aretas IV, King of Nabataea, 11.1, 11.2
Argyll, John Campbell, prl.1th Duke of, 39.1
Aristobulos II, King, 8.1, 9.1
Aristobulos, Prince, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1
Ark of the Covenant, prl.1, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 15.1, 42.1
Armenia, 10.1, 11.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 45.1
Armenian Monastery, 30.1, 35.1, 38.1, 53.1
Armenian Quarter, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 30.1, 53.1, epl.1
Armenians, 26.1, 30.1, 30.2, 32.1, 38.1, 40.1, 45.1, epl.1
genocide, 44.1, 44.2, 45.1, 46.1
and religious conflict, 32.1, 35.1, 37.1, 52.1
Artaxerxes I, King of Persia, 6.1, 37.1
Ashkelon, 2.1, 7.1, 8.1, 21.1, 22.1, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1, 26.1, 26.2, 27.1
Ashkenazi Jews, 2.1, 19.1, 32.1, 33.1, 36.1, 48.1
Asquith, Herbert, prl.1st Earl of Asquith and Oxford 429, 45.1
Athaliah, Queen of Jerusalem, 4.1, 24.1
al-Atrash, Amal, see ‘Asmahan’
Attlee, Clement, prl.1st Earl, 50.1, 50.2, 50.3
Augusta Victoria fortress, 42.1, 43.1, 44.1, 45.1, 46.1, 47.1, 47.2, 51.1, 52.1, 53.1
Augustus, Emperor (Octavian), 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1
Austrian Hospice, 39.1, 47.1, 52.1
Bab al-Qattanin, see Gate of the Cotton Merchants
Bab al-Silsila, see Gate of the Chain
Babylon, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 11.1, 41.1, epl.1
Babylonians, prl.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1
Baedeker, Karl, 39.1, 40.1, 43.1
Baghdad, 17.1, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 21.1, 21.2, 28.1, 29.1, 49.1
Jewish population, 6.1, 24.1, 38.1
Baibars, Sultan, 28.1, 29.1, 31.1, 40.1
Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem, 21.1, 21.2
Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2
Baldwin III, King of Jerusalem, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2
Baldwin V, King of Jerusalem, 25.1, 35.1
Balfour, Arthur, prl.1st Earl of, xxix, 42.1, 45.1, 45.2, 47.1, 47.2, 48.1
Balfour Declaration, 45.1, 46.1, 47.1, 47.2, 48.1, 49.1, 49.2
Balian of Ibelin, 25.1, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3
Balkans, 31.1, 37.1, 40.1, 44.1
Ballobar, Count Antonio de, 44.1, 44.2, 46.1
bar Kochba, Simon, 14.1, 16.1, 43.1
Baris fortress, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1
Barker, General Evelyn ‘Bubbles’, 50.1, 50.2, 50.3
bayah, 18.1
Beautiful Gate, 11.1, 11.2, 16.1, 28.1
Begin, Menachem, 50.1, 50.2, 50.3, 51.1, 53.1, 53.2, epl.1
Beirut, prl.1, 10.1, 22.1, 23.1, 24.1, 37.1, 37.2, 45.1, 49.1, epl.1
Belisarius, General, 14.1, 16.1
ben Zakkai, Rabbi Yohanan, prl.1, 14.1
Ben-Gurion, David (David Grün), 44.1, 45.1, 47.1, 48.1, 48.2, 52.1, 53.1, epl.1
and Israeli state, 48.1, 49.1, 49.2, 49.3, 50.1, 50.2, 50.3, 51.1, epl.1
Berenice, Queen of Chalcis, prl.1, prl.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2
Berlin, 44.1, 45.1, 46.1, 48.1, 49.1, 50.1, 52.1
Betar youth organization, 47.1, 48.1, 50.1
Bethesda Pool, 4.1, 9.1, 11.1, 23.1
Bethlehem, 10.1, 10.2, 15.1, 44.1
Church of the Nativity, 22.1, 37.1
and Crusades, 21.1, 21.2, 28.1
Bible, xxii, xxiv, xxviii, prl.1, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 50.1
the Gospels, prl.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 15.1
Old Testament, 2.1, 7.1, 8.1, 11.1
and Protestantism, 32.1, 32.2, 37.1
Bible, books of
Acts of the Apostles, 11.1, 12.1
Psalms, 2.1, 5.1, 11.1, 11.2, 15.1, 46.1
Revelation, 12.1, 14.1, 21.1, 40.1
St John, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
St Luke, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6
St Mark, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5
St Matthew, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4
Bismarck, Prince Otto von, 40.1, 42.1
Blake, William, 5.1, 35.1, 50.1
blood libel, 37.1, 37.2, 38.1, 42.1
Bohemond, Prince of Antioch, 21.1, 21.2, 25.1
Bols, Major-General Sir Louis J.
Book of the Glory of Kings, 15.1
Boston Herald, 48.1
Britain
British Jews, 27.1, 29.1, 32.1, 38.1
and Zionism, xxix, 42.1, 45.1, 46.1, 47.1, 48.1, 50.1
Britannicus, Tiberius Claudius
Byron, George Gordon, prl.1th Baron, 4.1
Caesar, Gaius Julius, 9.1, 14.1, 14.2
Caesarea, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 14.1, 16.1, 21.1, 22.1
Caesarea Philippi, 121
Caiaphas (high priest), 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5
Cairo, 21.1, 28.1, 28.2, 32.1, 32.2, 34.1, 48.1, 50.1, 50.2, 51.1, 53.1, 53.2
and caliphs, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1
and Mamluk sultanate, 29.1, 30.1, 30.2
and Sultan Baibars, 29.1, 29.2
Caligula, Emperor, 7.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2
Canaanites, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1
Cardo, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 23.1, epl.1
Caroline of Brunswick, Princess
Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, 33.1, 33.2, 34.1, 34.2, 37.1
Catholic Church, 15.1, 19.1, 21.1
and religious conflict, 20.1, 32.1, 32.2, 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 37.4, 46.1, 52.1, epl.1
Celebi, Evliya, see Evliya
Chancellor, Sir John, 48.1, 48.2
Charlemagne, Emperor, 8.1, 19.1, 23.1, 28.1, 37.1, 39.1, 42.1
Charles V, Emperor, 32.1, 32.2
Charles of Anjou, King of Jerusalem
Chateaubriand, François-René, Vicomte de, xxix
Christian Quarter, 19.1, 20.1, 40.1, epl.1
Christianity, prl.1, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1
Christians, early, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
church bells, 20.1, 21.1, 26.1, 36.1
Church of Mary Magdalene, 41.1, 48.1, 49.1, 52.1
Church of Our Lady of Jehoshaphat
Church of the Dormition, 42.1, 53.1
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, xxiii, 11.1, 11.2, 15.1, 20.1, 32.1, 46.1, 47.1, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3, amap1.1
and Arab conquests, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 20.1
construction by Empress Helena
and Crusaders, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1, 26.1, 27.1, 28.1
and Descent of the Holy Fire, 20.1, 23.1, 23.2, 32.1, 32.2, 36.1, 37.1, 40.1, 41.1, 43.1, epl.1
the Holy Sepulchre, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 20.1
and international visitors, 35.1, 36.1, 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 39.1, 41.1, 42.1
and Islamic sultanate, 26.1, 27.1, 28.1
and Mamluk sultanate, 29.1, 30.1
and Napoleonic invasion, 34.1, 34.2
and religious conflict, 35.1, 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 46.1
Churchill, Sir Winston, xv, xvi, 43.1, 47.1, 47.2, 48.1, 49.1, 50.1, 51.1, 52.1, 52.2
Cilicia, 3.1, 10.1, 12.1, 14.1
circumcision, 5.1, 7.1, 12.1, 14.1, 40.1
Citadel, this page, prl.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 18.1, 20.1, 37.1
and Crusaders, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1
Clarence, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of
Claudius, Emperor, prl.1, 12.1, 15.1
Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, 9.1, 14.1
Clinton, Bill, President, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
Conder, Lieutenant Charles, 39.1, 40.1
Congress of Berlin, 40.1, 45.1
Congreve, General Sir Walter ‘Squib’
Conrad of Montferrat, King of Jerusalem, 26.1, 26.2
Constantine the Great, Emperor, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2, 22.1, 41.1, 45.1
Constantine IX Monamachus, Emperor
Constantinople, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 16.2, 19.1, 19.2, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 46.1, 48.1
and Arab conquest, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 19.1
and Persian threat, 16.1, 16.2
see also this page
Constantius II, Emperor, 15.1, 15.2
Coptic Church, 15.1, 33.1, epl.1
Crassus, Marcus Licinius, 9.1, 9.2
Crewe, Margaret, Marchioness of
Crimea, 19.1, 32.1, 43.1, 48.1
Crimean War, 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 38.1
Cromwell, Oliver, 32.1, 32.2, 37.1
Crusades, 19.1, 39.1, 46.1, 47.1
and reconquest of Spain, 30.1, 32.1
Cunningham, General Sir Alan, 50.1, 50.2
Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess, 45.1, 45.2, 46.1, 47.1
Cyprus, 4.1, 7.1, 10.1, 14.1, 18.1, 27.1, 27.2, 35.1, 40.1, 42.1, 48.1
Cyrus the Great, King of Persia, 6.1, 7.1
Dajani family, 32.1, 33.1, 40.1, 48.1, 50.1, 52.1
Damascus, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 9.1, 20.1, 34.1, 34.2, 35.1, 38.1, 42.1, 43.1, 46.1, 50.1, 53.1
and Arab conquests, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 33.1
and Crusaders, 22.1, 23.1, 24.1, 25.1, 25.2, 26.1
and division of Middle East, 45.1, 45.2, 46.1, 46.2, 47.1, 50.1
and Islamic sultanate, 26.1, 27.1, 28.1, 28.2
Jewish population and blood libel, 37.1, 37.2, 42.1
and Mongol conquest, 28.1, 29.1
and St Paul’s conversion, 12.1, 15.1
Damascus Gate, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 15.2, 21.1, 21.2, 23.1, 28.1, 32.1, 40.1, 30.1, 44.1, 44.2, 50.1, 51.1, epl.1
Daniel, prophet, 5.1, 11.1, 11.2, 15.1
Darius I ‘the Great’, King of Persia, 6.1, 6.2, 11.1
David, King, xxiv, xxvii, prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 10.1, 14.1, 14.2, 32.1, 42.1, 53.1
and Islam, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2
David’s Tomb, see Mount Zion, Cenacle
Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), 17.1, 32.1, 48.1, 50.1, epl.1
see also this page
Dayan, Moshe, 44.1, 49.1, 51.1, 52.1, epl.1
Descent of the Holy Fire, 20.1, 23.1, 23.2, 32.1, 32.2, 36.1, 37.1, 40.1, 41.1, 43.1, epl.1
Diocletian, Emperor, 14.1, 15.1
Disraeli, Benjamin, prl.1st Earl of Beaconsfield, 24.1, 35.1, 38.1, 40.1, 45.1, 45.2, 46.1
Dome of the Chain, 18.1, 21.1, 22.1
Dome of the Rock, 3.1, 15.1, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 26.1, 32.1, 43.1, 45.1, 46.1, 51.1
and Crusaders (Temple of the Lord), 21.1, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 24.1, 28.1
and Islamic sultanate, 26.1, 27.1, 28.1, 28.2
and Mamluk sultanate, 29.1, 29.2, 30.1
negotiations and access, epl.1, epl.2
and Ottoman sultanate, 31.1, 32.1
Domitian, Emperor, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Duff, Captain Robin, 43.1, 43.2
Easter, 15.1, 16.1, 29.1, 32.1, 37.1, 40.1, 43.1
Edessa, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 22.1, 23.1, 28.1
Edward I, King, 8.1, 29.1, 39.1
Egypt, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 48.1, 50.1
and Albanian conquest, 36.1, 37.1
and Arab conquests, 19.1, 20.1
and British rule, 40.1, 42.1, 44.1, 45.1, 45.2, 46.1, 49.1
and Greek conquest, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
and Islamic sultanate, 25.1, 26.1, 26.2, 27.1, 28.1
Napoleonic invasion, 33.1, 34.1
and Nur al-Din’s conquest, 24.1, 26.1
and Ottoman conquest, 31.1, 32.1
and Persian conquests, 6.1, 16.1
and Roman occupation, 9.1, 10.1
and Six Day War, 52.1, 53.1, epl.1
Egyptians, ancient, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 10.1
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen, 24.1, 27.1
Ella, Grand Duchess, 41.1, 43.1, 48.1, 49.1
Enver Pasha, Ismail, 44.1, 44.2, 45.1, 46.1
Ethiopian Church, 15.1, 33.1, epl.1
Euphrates, river, 4.1, 5.1, 10.1, 21.1
Eusebius of Caesarea, 14.1, 15.1
Evliya Celebi, xxix, 30.1, 32.1, 33.1
Exodus, 50.1