Jerusalem :
Montefiore, Simon Sebag
Jerusalem : the biography - London Phoenix 2012 - xliv,720p.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations xviii
List of Family Trees xxiii
List of Maps xxiv
Preface xxv
Acknowledgements xxxvii
Notes on Names, Transliterations and Titles xlii
Prologue i
PART ONE : JUDAISM
The World of David 17
The Rise of David 23
The Kingdom and the Temple 26
The Kings of Judah 37
The Whore of Babylon 49
The Persians 57
The Macedonians 64
The Maccabees 78
The Romans Arrive 86
The Herods 94
Jesus Christ 114
The Last of the Herods 133
Jewish Wars: The Death of Jerusalem 147
PART TWO: PAGANISM
PART EIGHT: EMPIRE
14. Aelia Capitolina 155
PART THREE: CHRISTIANITY
15.The Apogee of Byzantium 173
16.Sunset of the Byzantines: Persian Invasion 191
PART FOUR: ISLAM
17.The Arab Conquest 203
18. The Umayyads: The Temple Restored 214
19. The Abbasids: Distant Masters 226
20. The Fatimids: Tolerance and Lunacy 231
PART FIVE: CRUSADE
21.The Slaughter 247
22.The Rise of Outremer 258
23.The Golden Age of Outremer 264
24.Stalemate 278
25.The Leper-King 289
26.Saladin 296
27.The Third Crusade: Saladin and Richard 308
28.The Saladin Dynasty 315
PART six: MAMLUK
29.Slave to Sultan 329
30.Decline of the Mamluks 338
PART SEVEN: OTTOMAN
31.The Magnificence of Suleiman 347
32.Mystics and Messiahs 351
33.The Families 368
34.Napoleon in the Holy Land 377
35.The New Romantics: Chateaubriand and Disraeli 382
36.The Albanian Conquest 391
37.The Evangelists 397
38.The New City 419
39.The New Religion 424
40.Arab City, Imperial City 431
41.Russians 441
PART NINE: ZIONISM
42.The Kaiser 449
43.The CW-Player of Jerusalem 459
44.World War 473
45.Arab Revolt, Balfour Declaration 482
46.The Christmas Present 499
47.The Victors and the Spoils 513
48.The British Mandate 522
49.The Arab Revolt 538
50.The Dirty War 553
51.Jewish Independence, Arab Catastrophe 570
52.Divided 580
53.Six Days 589
Epilogue 603
Family Trees 629
Maps 637
Notes 649
Bibliography 651
Index 683
9781780220253
933.05 / MON
Jerusalem : the biography - London Phoenix 2012 - xliv,720p.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations xviii
List of Family Trees xxiii
List of Maps xxiv
Preface xxv
Acknowledgements xxxvii
Notes on Names, Transliterations and Titles xlii
Prologue i
PART ONE : JUDAISM
The World of David 17
The Rise of David 23
The Kingdom and the Temple 26
The Kings of Judah 37
The Whore of Babylon 49
The Persians 57
The Macedonians 64
The Maccabees 78
The Romans Arrive 86
The Herods 94
Jesus Christ 114
The Last of the Herods 133
Jewish Wars: The Death of Jerusalem 147
PART TWO: PAGANISM
PART EIGHT: EMPIRE
14. Aelia Capitolina 155
PART THREE: CHRISTIANITY
15.The Apogee of Byzantium 173
16.Sunset of the Byzantines: Persian Invasion 191
PART FOUR: ISLAM
17.The Arab Conquest 203
18. The Umayyads: The Temple Restored 214
19. The Abbasids: Distant Masters 226
20. The Fatimids: Tolerance and Lunacy 231
PART FIVE: CRUSADE
21.The Slaughter 247
22.The Rise of Outremer 258
23.The Golden Age of Outremer 264
24.Stalemate 278
25.The Leper-King 289
26.Saladin 296
27.The Third Crusade: Saladin and Richard 308
28.The Saladin Dynasty 315
PART six: MAMLUK
29.Slave to Sultan 329
30.Decline of the Mamluks 338
PART SEVEN: OTTOMAN
31.The Magnificence of Suleiman 347
32.Mystics and Messiahs 351
33.The Families 368
34.Napoleon in the Holy Land 377
35.The New Romantics: Chateaubriand and Disraeli 382
36.The Albanian Conquest 391
37.The Evangelists 397
38.The New City 419
39.The New Religion 424
40.Arab City, Imperial City 431
41.Russians 441
PART NINE: ZIONISM
42.The Kaiser 449
43.The CW-Player of Jerusalem 459
44.World War 473
45.Arab Revolt, Balfour Declaration 482
46.The Christmas Present 499
47.The Victors and the Spoils 513
48.The British Mandate 522
49.The Arab Revolt 538
50.The Dirty War 553
51.Jewish Independence, Arab Catastrophe 570
52.Divided 580
53.Six Days 589
Epilogue 603
Family Trees 629
Maps 637
Notes 649
Bibliography 651
Index 683
9781780220253
933.05 / MON