Jerusalem: The Biography

Crispus Caesar, 145

Croesus, King of Lydia, 47

Cromwell, Oliver, 301–2, 303, 331

Crossman, Richard, 461

crucifixion, 1–2, 62, 105–7

Crusader architecture, 254

Crusades, 189, 355, 420, 428

Count Thibault’s, 270

Eighth, 277n

Fifth, 265–6

First, 208–10

and holy war theory, 208

and reconquest of Spain, 285, 293–4

Second, 234, 333

Seventh, 271

Third, 255–62

Ctesiphon, 161–2

Cunningham, General Sir Alan, 467, 474–5

Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess, 414, 415n, 426, 432–3

Curzon, Robert, 328–9

Cyprus, 35, 55, 84n, 133, 179, 257, 260n, 325, 362, 380–1, 436

Cyrenaica, 55

Cyrene, 81

Cyrus the Great, King of Persia, 47–50, 53

Czechoslovakia, 452–4

Dacia, 134

Daimbert, Patriarch, 215–16

Dajani family, 296, 308n, 360–1, 439, 469, 488

Damas, General, 312, 316

Damascus, 22, 29, 32n, 71, 194, 316n, 318, 323, 350, 380, 383, 417n, 469, 492

and Albanian conquest, 327

and Arab conquests, 172, 176, 178, 181, 185–6, 310

and Crusaders, 217, 223–4, 235, 243, 246, 249

and division of Middle East, 403, 405, 421, 426, 428, 469

and Islamic sultanate, 251–3, 262–4, 268

Jewish population and blood libel, 333, 336, 374

and Mongol conquest, 272, 279

and St Paul’s conversion, 117, 143

and Tamurlane’s conquest, 282–4

and Three Pashas, 397–8, 416

Umayyad Mosque, 96n, 185

Damascus Gate, 110, 134, 135n, 138, 152n, 157, 208, 211, 226, 270, 304, 364–5, 379, 395, 397, 467, 479, 518

Damasus, Bishop, 151

Damietta, 265

Dan, 30

Daniel, prophet, 45–6, 97, 100n, 150

Daniel the stylite, 154

Danube, river, 343

Danzig, 513

Darius I ‘the Great’, King of Persia, 49–50, 52, 106n

Darius III, King of Persia, 53

d’Aubeny, Philip, 422n

House of David, 22, 32n

David, King, xix, xxiv, 7, 10, 13, 19–25, 32n, 40, 46, 67n, 86, 133, 140, 304–5, 374, 491

and Bathsheba, 23, 25, 363

and Charlemagne, 189

and Islam, 170, 175, 182, 185

his palace, 23n, 501n

relics of, 152

David el-Rey, 240n

David’s Tomb, see Mount Zion, Cenacle

Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), 171, 302, 436–7, 459, 502

see also Yom Kippur War

Dayan, Moshe, 400n, 456, 481, 487, 504

and Orde Wingate, 451–2

and Six Day War, 493–8

Dayan, Ruth, 452, 494

D-Day, 459

Dead Sea, 90, 96, 123

Dead Sea Scrolls, 100n, 495

Debussy, Claude, 423

Deir Yassin massacre, 471–2, 473

Delhi, 283

Demetrius II, King of Syria, 67n

Deraa, 419

Dervishes, 303–4, 360–1

Descent of the Holy Fire, 198, 228, 230, 300, 305, 328, 348, 361, 367, 388, 519

desert monasteries, 154

Deuteronomists, 45n

Dickie, Archibald, 390

Digness, Mendel, 335

Diocletian, Emperor, 140, 145

Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, 240n, 324–5, 352, 362, 409, 411, 424

Dome of Solomon, 265n

Dome of the Ascension, 165n

Dome of the Chain, 179, 212, 219

Dome of the Rock, 27n, 148, 181–5, 188, 190, 197, 250, 304–5, 400, 408, 424, 480

and Crusaders (Temple of the Lord), 212–13, 217, 219, 227–9, 241, 270

daily rituals, 519–21

and Islamic sultanate, 254, 261, 263, 268–9

Israeli shootings, 503

and Mamluk sultanate, 276, 280–1, 284

negotiations and access, 510, 519

and Ottoman sultanate, 291–2, 305

and Parker fiasco, 391

regilding of, 491

and Six Day War, 495, 497

Domitian, Emperor, 121n, 130n, 131, 133

Donmeh sect, 303n

Donner, Fred M., 174n

Doris, 85, 88–9

Dorr, David, 347

Double Gates, 138n, 184

Dreyfus Affair, 373

Drusilla, Queen, 116, 119

Drusus, 111

Druze, 199, 356, 519

Duff, Captain Robin, 389n, 390–1

Dung Gate, 329, 497

East Prussia, 382n, 461

Easter, 148n, 159, 276, 298, 305, 339, 360, 388

Eban, Abba, 493–4

Ebenezer, Battle of, 18

Ebionites, 140n

Ecclesiasticus, 58, 199n

Edessa, 210, 213n, 215, 217–18, 224, 264

fall of, 233–4

Edict of Milan, 144

Edom, 65, 77

Edomites, 19, 29, 43, 69

Edward I, King, 65n, 277n, 354

Edward VII, King, 353–4, 363n

Edwiga, Abbess, 201

Egeria, 152

Egypt, 13, 19n, 22, 26, 44n, 109n, 133, 135, 138, 422, 468–70

and Albanian conquest, 326–7, 334

and Arab conquests, 191, 193–4

and British rule, 362, 380, 396–7, 403, 405, 407, 423, 449

and Crusaders, 216, 218

and desert monks, 154

and Greek conquest, 53–6, 57n, 61–2

and Islamic sultanate, 243–4, 251, 253, 260–1, 264–6

and Israeli war, 477–8, 480

Israelites in, 16–17

Jewish community, 194–5

killing of dogs and cats, 198

Napoleonic invasion, 311–12, 317–18

and Nur al-Din’s conquest, 238–41, 251

and Ottoman conquest, 291, 294

and peace deal, 502–3

and Persian conquests, 49–50, 162–4

and Roman occupation, 73–7, 81–2

and Six Day War, 489, 494–5, 517

and Suez Canal, 355, 490

and Turkoman conquest, 202

and UAR, 490–1

and Yom Kippur War, 505

Egyptians, ancient, 14–15, 18, 28–30, 35–6, 38, 41–2, 85n

Eichmann, Adolf, 487

Eilat, 493

Ein Kerem, 95, 365, 449

Ekron, 20

El Alamein, Battle of, 460

El-Arish, 218, 380–2

Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen, 234–5, 257

Eleazar the Galilean, 130

elephants, 57, 63, 67

Elgar, Sir Edward, 321n

Eliahu, Jacob, 37n, 365

Elijah, prophet, 197n

Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, 378

Elizabeth I, Queen, 299

Elizabeth II, Queen, 454n

Ella, Grand Duchess, 368–9, 386n, 444n, 454n

Elyashar, Menache, 418

Emesa, 88n

Emmaus, 163

English Hotel, 344

Enlightenment, 331, 374

Enver Pasha, Ismail, 394–5, 400–2, 408, 416

Ephraim, 24

Epic of Gilgamesh, 36, 45n

Eshkol, Levi, 489–90, 493

Essenes, 100n

Ethiopia, 157n, 517