Jerusalem: The Biography

Ptolemy IV, King, 57n

Ptolemy VI Philometer, King, 66n, 67

Ptolemy VIII Euergetes, King, 67n

Ptolemy IX Soter, King, 70n

Ptolemy XIII, King, 73

Ptolemy, King of Mauretania, 82n

Ptolemy of Alexandria, 190n

Pulcheria, Empress, 153, 155–7

Punch, 379

Purim, 360, 384

Puritans, 300–1, 332, 337

Pushkin, Alexander, 340

Putin, Vladimir, 369n, 515n

pyramids, 85n

Qaitbay, Sultan, 279n, 287–8, 521

Qashashi, 305

al-Qassam, Sheikh Izzat al-Din, 447–8

Qazaz, Firaz, 521

Qazaz, Naji, 521

qiblas, 171, 175

Quadi, 138

al-Quds University, 518n

Quirinius, 91n

Qutuz, Sultan, 275

Rabin, Yitzhak, 429–30, 469, 473–6, 479–70, 485, 506–7, 514

and Six Day War, 492–3, 496–7

Rabinowitz, Rabbi Shmuel, 517–18

Rachel’s Tomb, 323, 351, 357n

Rachkovsky, Piotr, 380n

railways, 348–9, 363

Ramadan, 171, 199, 259, 359, 513

Ramallah, 216

Ramban, Rabbi, see Nachmanides

Ramban Synagogue, 279n, 282, 286–7, 295, 297

Ramla, 186, 204, 316, 481, 487

Ramle Vale Jackal Hounds Hunt, 442

Ramses II the Great, pharaoh, 17–18

Ramsgate, 351, 357n

Raphia, 70

Raphia, Battle of, 57n

Rasputin, Grigory, 385–7

Rauff, Walter, 457

Raushen Pasha, 399

Ravenna, 159

Raymond, Count of Toulouse, Count of Tripoli, 207, 209, 211–12, 214

Raymond, Count of Tripoli, 243–7

Raymond, Prince of Antioch, 234–6

Raymond of Aguilers, 212

Red Crescent, 399

red heifer, 86

Red Sea, 31, 40, 245

Rehavia, 444, 466, 481, 487

Rehoboam, King, 30–1

Rehovoth, 481

Reich, Ronny, 21n, 393

Reuveni, David, 297n, 299n

Reynald of Chatillon, Lord of Kerak and

Outrejordain, 243, 245–6, 248, 250

Rhodes, 81, 179, 333

Richard, Earl of Cornwall, 270

Richard I the Lionheart, King, 65n, 235n, 257–63, 267, 406

Richman, Rabbi, Chaim, 86n

Rida ibn Thawb, 200n

Ridwan, Prince, 297

Riley-Smith, Jonathan, 227

Rishon-le-Zion, 374

de Riveri, Paschia, 244

Riyad, General Abdul Munim, 493, 495

Robert, Duke of Flanders, 208

Robert I, Duke of Normandy, 201

Robert II, Duke of Normandy, 208

Robert, King of Naples, 281

Roberts, David, 333

Robinson, Edward, 337, 354n

Robinsons’s Arch, 99, 354n

Rohan, David, 501

Romania, 343

Romanos IV Diogenes, Emperor, 202n

Romans, 60, 62, 70–7, 80–2, 93, 115–17

and Christianity, 132–3

and Jewish revolt, 120–6

and life of Jesus, 98, 100–7

and St Paul, 118–19

siege of Jerusalem, 1–10

and suppression of Jews, 129–39

Rome, 121, 207n, 351, 370, 463

Arch of Titus, 129, 130n

and Christians, 114, 139–40, 151

Church of St Paul Outside the Walls, 121n

civil war in, 138

Temple of Peace, 129, 131n

Vespasian’s Triumph, 129–30

year of three emperors, 2, 126

Rome, bishops of, 151, 159

Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin, 459

Roosevelt, Franklin D., President, 382n, 459n, 462

Roosevelt, Theodore, President, 428

Rosh Ha Ayim, 53

Rosh Hashanah, 516

Rothschild, Dolly de, 414

Rothschild, Baron Edmond de, 374, 390, 421

Rothschild, James de, 421, 487n

Rothschild, Lionel de, 325n, 350, 352n, 362

Rothschild, Nathaniel, 1st Baron, 324, 350, 380

Rothschild, Walter, 2nd Baron, 414–15

Roxelana, Sultana, 291–2, 297

Royal Boar, 162–4

Rubens, Peter Paul, 65n

Rubowitz, Alexander, 466, 467n

Runciman, Sir Steven, 263n

Russell, Earl, 354

Russia, 310, 320, 330–1, 335, 339–43, 347–8, 361–2, 366, 515

anti-Semitism and Jewish exodus, 367–70, 374, 380, 382–3

Moses Montefiore’s visit, 350–1n

Russian Jews, 330, 334–5, 345, 350, 367–70, 374–5, 382–3, 412–13, 415, 423–4, 430, 508–9

and Sykes–Picot Agreement, 405

see also Soviet Union

Russian Compound, 353, 367, 369, 384, 386, 417, 429, 444, 462, 464–5, 474, 478

Russian Palestine Society, 367

Russian Revolution, 413

Rustaveli, Shota, 296n

Rutenberg, Pinhas, 423n, 429

Saakashvili, Mikheil, President, 296n

Sabas, 156n

al-Sabbah, Hassan, 203n

Sabbatai Zevi, 302–3

Sabbath, 45, 54, 59, 62–3, 107, 144n, 171, 307

Sabinus, 93

Sabra and Shatila massacres, 503

sacrifice, cult of, 53, 59, 101

see also child sacrifice

Sadat, Anwar, President, 504–5, 515

Sadducees, 68n

Sadeh, General Yitzhak, 452, 456

Sadowa, Battle of, 356

Safadin, Sultan, 249, 251n, 253–4, 255n, 258–65

Safed, 298, 334

al-Saffah, Caliph, 186–8

Said, Boulos, 441

Said, Edward, xix, xxiv, 441, 518n, 519n

Sakakini, Khalil, 408, 417, 429, 444–5

Sakhra, 175

Saladin, Sultan, 224–6, 227n, 241, 243–64, 270, 276, 380, 508, 520

and later developments, 381, 404, 409, 420n, 509

Salahiyya endowments, 255

Salih Ayyub, Sultan, 270–1, 275

Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Marquess of, 409

Sallust, 71

Salome (daughter of Herodias), 96

Salome (sister of Herod), 80, 83–4, 88–90

Salome Alexandra, Queen, 70–1

Salonika, 293, 399

Samara, 150

Samaria, 28, 32, 34, 69, 82, 93

Samaritans, 51, 53, 110, 116, 138, 154, 159

Samarkand, 283

Samosata, 78

Samuel, prophet, 19, 204

Samuel, Herbert, 1st Viscount, 411, 413–14, 431, 433–6

San Remo Conference, 431

Sanballat, 51, 53

Sand, Shlomo, 191n

Sanderson, John, 299

Sandys, George, 299–300

Sanhedrin, 59, 64, 74, 78, 104, 110, 119, 150

Sanhedrin tomb, 79n

Saracens (the name), 173

Sarajevo, 374

Sardis, 48n, 50n

Sargon II, King of Assyria, 34–5

Saturnius, 156

al-Saud, Abdullah, 327

Ibn Saud, Abdul-Aziz, 327n

Ibn Saud, King Abdullah, 327n, 432, 468

Saudi Arabia, 281, 327n, 432n, 467, 510

Saul, King, 19–21

Saulcy, Félicien de, 355

St Saviour’s monastery, 296, 310, 318–19, 322, 330