000			02331 a2200169 4500
020			_a9781780220253
082			_a933.05 _bMON
100			_aMontefiore, Simon Sebag _944766
245			_aJerusalem : _bthe biography
260			_bPhoenix _c2012 _aLondon
300			_axliv,720p.
505			_aCONTENTS 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
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