Jerusalem: The Biography

and Islamic sultanate, 243, 251, 253, 262

and Israeli wars, 477, 494

Jewish community, 34n, 48n, 133, 486

and Persian conquest, 161, 163

Iraq War, 209, 406

Ireland, 409

Ireneos, Patriarch, 520–1

Irgun Zvai Leumi, 439, 450, 453, 457–60, 464–7, 470, 472, 475, 479, 503n

Isaac, son of Abraham, 16, 27n, 39n, 86

Isaac Angelus, 263

Isabella, Queen of Castile, 293–4

Isabella, Queen of Jerusalem, 256n, 265n

Isaiah, prophet, 33–5, 38, 95, 97, 100–1

Isfahan, 283

Ishbosheth, 21

Islam, 10, 483

early, 170–1, 174, 176, 178, 180–1, 184

and offers of conversion, 248–9

Ismail, Imam, 194

Ismail, Shah, 288

Israel

and Assyrian conquest, 31–4

coinage, 124, 136

and dysfunctional democracy, 511n

founding of modern state, xxiv, 326, 475–6

and the Maccabees, 65n

revolt against Romans, 123–4, 136

and Six Day War, 492–8

and Suez crisis, 490

union and split with Judah, 21–2, 25, 30–1

war of independence, 458n, 476–82

Israel Defence Forces, 452, 491

Israelites, xviii, 15–20, 25–9

Lost Tribes, 34, 297n, 322, 337–8

Israelovsky Regiment, 311n

Israfil, Archangel of Death, 185n

Israiliyyat, 176

Istanbul, 293, 295–6, 302–3, 306, 311, 315n, 327, 330, 333–5, 342–3, 356, 360–1, 370, 377, 389, 393–4, 400, 402, 405n, 416n, 454n

Italy, 71, 73, 143, 269, 270n, 295

Italian Jews, 454

Iturea, 69

Ivan the Terrible, 146n

ivory, 28

Izzat Bey, 417

Jabiya, 174

Jabotinsky, Vladimir, 421, 423, 428–31, 437–9, 458–9, 499

Jacob (Israel), 16

Jacob Baradeus, 157n

Jacobs, Julius, 426n

Jacobson, Eddie, 461, 473

Jaffa, 268, 271, 310, 329, 339, 355–6, 363, 394, 418, 448, 450

and Crusades, 209–10, 215–16, 219, 249, 258, 262

and Jerusalem railway, 348–9

and Napoleonic invasion, 312, 316–18

and Parker fiasco, 391–2

see also Joppa

Jaffa Gate, 104, 208, 268, 288, 292n, 319, 343, 347, 349, 356, 363–4, 377, 384, 397, 400, 418–21, 424, 441, 444, 451–3, 469, 473, 479, 519

Jaffa Road, 356, 363, 384, 417–18

St James, 115, 119n

St James the Just (James, brother of Jesus), 107, 109–10, 115, 117–19, 124, 144

St James’s Cathedral, 233n, 285, 318n

St Jameses Cathedral, 119n, 162, 277

James I, King, 300

James, King of Aragon, 279

James, brother of Jesus, see St James the Just

Jameson Raid, 389n

Jamra, 188

Jaqmaq, Sultan, 286, 287n

al-Jarallah, Sheikh Husam, 481 see Jarallah

Jason, 61

Jawhariyyeh, Wasif, xxv, 384–5, 388, 390, 395, 397–401, 417, 419–20, 429, 435, 444–5, 449, 453, 456–7, 471–4

Jawhar al-Siqili, 193

Jazzar Pasha, Ahmet, 315–18

Jebusites, 15, 18, 21–2

Jefferson, Thomas, President, 336

Jeharah, King of Judah, 31

Jehoash, King, 32–3

Jehoiakim, King, 41, 45

Jehoshaphat Gate, 240

Jehovah’s Witnesses, 337n

Jehu, King, 32

Jem Sultan, Crown Prince, 288

Jemal Pasha, 395–8, 400, 403, 407–8, 414, 416, 419, 489

Jeremiah, prophet, 41–3, 44n, 100n, 101, 301

Jericho, 13–14, 17n, 43, 71, 79–80, 84n, 90–1, 125, 163, 210, 276, 363, 465, 479

Jeroboam, 29–30

St Jerome, 151–4, 160

Jerusalem

Albanian conquest, 326–30

American obsession with, 329n, 336–9

Arab conquest, 173–7, 181–6

and archaeology, 354–6, 390

and Assyrian threat, 36–8

Babylonian destruction, 1, 9, 42–4

British conquest, 416–26

British withdrawal, 465–71

Byzantine city, 159–60

canine pogrom, 307–8

Christian pilgrims, 200–1, 226–7, 284–5, 327–8

Crusader city, 225–32, 235–6

Crusader conquest, 203–20

David’s conquest, 21–23

divided city, 481–9

earthquakes, 149–50, 155, 187, 200

evangelists and visitors, 331–58

Fatimid conquest, 193–5

and Grand Mufti’s revolt, 448–54

Hadrian’s city, 135n

as heavenly city, 10, 33–4, 117, 133, 140, 197

Hellenization, 59–62

Herod’s rebuilding, 82–7

Hezekiah’s city, 35

Islamic city, 264–5

Islamic conquest, 249–50, 253–4

and Israeli rule, 503–23

Kaiser’s visit, 377–80

and life of Jesus, 98–106

Mamluk conquest, 271–2, 276–88

modern life, 515–20

modernist city, 440–5

and Mongol raids, 272, 275, 277–8

multiplicity of names, 176n, 521–2

nineteenth-century city, 359–66

Ottoman conquest, 291–3

Persian conquest, 161–4

Persian rebuilding, 49–51

riots, 429–30, 436–8, 506–7, 509–10

Roman destruction, 1–10

Roman restoration, 145–6, 149–50

Roman suppression, 134–9

and Russian pilgrims, 353, 369, 385–7, 392, 405n

security wall, 509, 512

situation and name, 13–14

and Six Day War, 492–5

Tartar conquest, 271–2

theocracy and power struggle, 58–9

and Three Pashas, 394–401

and Turkoman conquest, 202–3

Jerusalem Academy, 191n, 195

Jerusalem Brigade, 470, 497

Jerusalem Chapels, 285

Jerusalem Chess Club, 424

Jerusalem Emergency Committee, 474

Jerusalem Families, xxiv, 177, 316, 329, 351, 370, 384, 398–9, 420, 442, 472, 474, 508n, 518, 521

ascendancy of, 308–9, 360–1, 364, 385, 434–5

and Israeli war, 481, 483–4, 488

and land sales, 394, 437

Jerusalem Syndrome, xxi, 341–2, 437–8, 499, 501–2

Jesse, of Bethlehem, 19

Jesus, prophet, 120–1

Jesus Christ, 4, 10, 34, 48n, 87, 90, 135, 148n, 150, 165n, 427, 461

his circumcision, 222

and early Christians, 117–19, 122, 133–4, 136

and Gnostics, 140n

and icons, 229

and Islam, 170, 185, 519

his life, 91, 93–4, 96–110

and Manichaeanism, 144n

relics of, 146–7, 152, 162, 229

his tomb, 146–7, 165n, 271, 300, 320

and William Blake, 321n

Jewish Agency, 445, 457, 461–5, 475, 481, 503n

Jewish Auxiliaries, 452

Jewish calendar, 27