Jerusalem: Idea and Reality

✍ Scribed by Tamar Mayer, Suleiman A. Mourad

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 351
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Jerusalem, the holy city of three faiths, has been the focus of competing historical, religious, and political narratives from Biblical chronicles to today’s headlines. With an aura that transcends the boundaries of time and place, the city itself embodies different levels of reality – indeed, different realities altogether – for both observers and inhabitants. There is the real Jerusalem, a place of ancient streets and monuments, temples and coffee-houses, religious discourse and political argument. But there is also the imaginary and utopian city that exists in the minds of believers, political strategists, and artists. The study of this multifaceted city poses complex questions that range over several fields of inquiry.

The multidisciplinary studies in Jerusalem offer insights into this complexity. Chapters by leading scholars examine the significant issues that relate to the perception, representation, and status of the city at the historical, religious, social, artistic, and political levels. Together they provide an essential resource for anyone interested in the paradoxes that Jerusalem offers.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
1 Introduction......Page 20
2 Jerusalem: One city, one faith, one god......Page 33
3 Jerusalem in Jewish history, tradition, and memory......Page 46
4 The Temple Mount in Jewish and early Christian traditions: A new look......Page 66
5 Early Christian Jerusalem: The city of the cross......Page 86
6 The symbolism of Jerusalem in early Islam......Page 105
7 The holy fool still speaks: The Jerusalem Syndrome as a religious subculture......Page 122
8 Sacred space and mythic time in the early printed maps of Jerusalem......Page 142
9 Seeing is believing: Auguste Salzmann and the photographic representation of Jerusalem......Page 159
10 Fayruz, the Rahbani Brothers, Jerusalem, and the Leba-stinian song......Page 174
11 Jerusalem in the visual propaganda of post-revolutionary Iran......Page 187
12 Negotiating the city: A perspective of a Jerusalemite......Page 217
13 Jerusalem in the late Ottoman period: Historical writing and the native voice......Page 224
14 Jerusalem in and out of focus: The city in Zionist ideology......Page 243
15 Administering Jordanian Jerusalem: Constructing national identity......Page 264
16 The Palestinian political leadership in East Jerusalem after 1967......Page 285
17 Yerushalayim, al-Quds, and the Wizard of Oz: The problem of ‘‘Jerusalem’’ after Camp David II and the Aqsa Intifada......Page 302
18 Negotiating Jerusalem: Reflections of an Israeli negotiator......Page 322
Index......Page 340