Jerusalem: The Biography

Mithridates, King of Pontus, 70

Mizpah, 44n

Moab, 70

Moabites, 19, 31–2n

Modestos, Patriarch, 163, 165

Modin, 63, 66, 458

molok, 39n

Molotov, Vyecheslav, 440n

Monastery of the Cross, 106n, 296n

Mongols, 272, 275, 277–9

Monophysites, 156–7, 174, 519

Montagu, Edwin, 414

Montefiore, Sir Abraham, 357n

Montefiore, Claude, 414

Montefiore, Sir Francis, 375

Montefiore, Judith, 323–4, 332, 349, 351, 357n

Montefiore, Sir Moses, 323–4, 325n, 332–3, 335–6, 348–51, 354, 357, 374, 421

Montefiore Quarter, 351–2, 357, 384, 438, 467–9, 470

Montesquieu, Baron de, 326

Montgisard, 243

Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard, 1st Viscount, 452–4, 459, 464–6

Montjoie, 204, 260

Morgan, J. P., Jr., 423

Morganthau, Henry, 398n

Morley, Edmund Parker, 4th Earl of, 388

Morley, John Parker, 6th Earl of, 393

Mormons, 338

Morocco, 180n, 255, 283

Morphia, Queen of Jerusalem, 218

Morris, Benny, 471

Moscow, 369, 386n, 444n, 454, 462n, 489, 492–3, 515

Moses, 17, 40, 86n, 110, 170, 276, 410, 520

Mosque of Omar, 264

mosque (the word), 171n

Mossad, 488, 505

Mosul, 217, 427

Motol, 350n, 412

Mount Ararat, 389n

Mount Gerizim, 53, 110, 509

Mount Gilboa, 20

Mount Hermon, 248

Mount Herzl, 487, 507

Mount Moriah, 3, 7, 16, 24–5, 27, 35n, 179, 182

Mount Nebo, 17

Mount of Olives, 86–7, 139, 195, 236, 240, 323, 409, 434, 517, 521

and Christianity, 99, 108, 117, 153

churches, 147, 162, 368

and crucifixions, 1–2

and Crusaders, 210–11

and European visitors, 332, 363n and Islamic sultanate, 260, 265

Jewish cemetery, 139, 338, 479

and Mamluk sultanate, 286

and Ottoman sultanate, 295

and Providence, 10, 132

and Second Coming, 500

see also Augusta Victoria fortress

Mount Scopus, 3, 174, 394, 425, 434, 473, 481–83, 494, 496

Mount Zion, xxi – xxii, 69, 120n, 132, 139, 148, 156, 200, 211, 338, 379n, 449, 463

and Albanian conquest, 329

Cenacle (David’s Tomb), 25n, 69, 103, 109, 239, 240n, 254, 255n, 260, 281, 286, 292n, 295, 327, 329, 400

and Islamic sultanate, 254, 255n

and Israeli wars, 480, 495, 497

and Mamluk sultanate, 281, 286–7

and Ottoman sultanate, 292n, 299

synagogue, 139, 148

Mourners of Zion, 195

Moussaieff family, 375

Movement for the Establishment of the Temple, 503

Moyne, Walter Guinness, 1st Baron, 382n, 441, 459

Muawiya ibn Abi Sufayan, caliph, 177–81

Muazzam Isa, Sultan, 265–7

Mubarak, Hosne, 505

Mufti of Jerusalem, see Husseini, Amin

Muhammad, Prince of Jordan, 488, 491

Muhammad, Prophet, 10, 44, 165, 174, 176, 184–5, 187, 246, 259, 291, 303, 403n, 520

his life, 169–72

his Night Journey, 169–70, 182, 200, 259, 437

relics of, 229

Muhammad, son of Farrukh, 297

Muhammad Ali, 326–7, 329, 333–4, 350

Muizz, Caliph, 193–4

Mujir al-Din, 288

mulberry trees, 295

Munich Agreement, 452

Munich Olympics, 502

Munster, 297n

Munqidh, Usamah bin, see Usamah

al-Muqaddasi, 182, 191n, 195–7

Muscovy, 340

Muslim Brotherhood, 445, 477, 506, 508

Muslim Quarter, 276, 281, 356, 357n, 438, 506, 507–8, 520

Mussolini, Benito, 430–1, 454

Mustansir, Caliph, 200n

Mustasim, Caliph, 190

Mycenae, 14–15

Nabataea, 88n

Nabataeans, 81

Nabi Daoud, 295

Nabi Musa festival, 276, 308n, 361, 388, 391–2

Nabi Musa riots, 429–31, 435

Nabi Samuel, 416–17

Nablus, 236, 246, 270, 318, 327, 329, 365, 391, 417, 447, 449, 484

Nabonidus, King of Babylon, 46

Nabopolassar, 39

Nachmanides, Ramban, 278–9

al-Nadim, 190n

Nahalavat Shiva, 364

Nahum, prophet, 36

Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor, 311–12, 315–18, 320–1, 323, 326, 374, 427, 446

Napoleon III, Emperor, 342–3, 348, 355, 380n

al-Naqashibi, Nasir al-Din, 435n

Narkiss, General Uzi, 494–7

Nashashibi family, 435n, 438–9, 442, 489

Fakhri Bey al-Nashashibi, 449

Nassereddin al-Nashashibi, 435, 443, 463, 484–5

Ragheb al-Nashashibi, 385, 394, 399, 422, 435–6, 439, 441, 448–9, 453, 478, 483

Nasi, Joseph, 295, 297

Nasir Daud, Sultan, 268, 270–1

Nasir Muhammad, Sultan, 278, 279–81, 344n

Nasir-i-Khusrau, 200–1

Nasser, Colonel Gamal Abdul, President, 485, 489–90, 492–8, 506, 519

Nathan, prophet, 23, 25

Naumov, Bishop Cyril, 386

Navarino, Battle of, 327

Nazarenes, 109–10, 115

Nazareth, 95, 275, 416

Nea Church, 159–60, 162

Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, xix, 9, 41–6, 59, 65, 374, 388–9

Nebuzardan, 43–4

Necho, pharaoh, 41

Negev, 481, 493, 516

Neguib, General Muhammad, 482

Nehemiah (cup-bearer), 51, 54, 56n

Nehemiah (Jewish leader), 162–3

Nelson, Admiral Horatio, 312, 494

Nero, Emperor, 2, 60, 116, 118–21, 124, 126

Nerva, Emperor, 133

Nestorians, 157

Nestorius, Patriarch, 156

Netanyahu, Binyamin, 507–8, 514

Netzer, Ehud, 92n

New Jerusalem Monastery, 340n

New Salem, Illinois, 347n

New York, 476, 489

New York Times, 378, 392

Newgate Prison, 322

Nicanor, 66

Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia, 339–43, 347, 350

Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 369, 379, 382–3, 386, 387n, 413, 444n

Night of the Bridges, 464

Nikolai Hostel, 463, 475

Nikolaus of Damascus, 82

Nikon, Patriarch, 340n

Nile, river, 135, 218, 271

NILI, 407

Nineveh, 31, 36, 38–9

NKVD, 461

Noah, 298

Nob, 20

Noble Sanctuary, 281

North Korea, 489

Northern Rhodesia, 436

Notable Families, see Jerusalem Families

Nottingham, 257n

Nubia, 28

Numrud, 32n

Nur al-Din, Atabeg, 234–43, 251

his minbar, 237, 254, 269, 502

Nuremberg trials, 439n

Nusaybah, 177n