Jerusalem: The Biography

Savoyards, 278n

Schick, Conrad, 228n, 364n

Schiff, Jacob, 382

Schlechter, Solomon, 199n

Scott, C. P., 410–11

Scott, Walter, 336

Sea Peoples, 15, 18

Sebag, Jemima, 349

Sebag-Montefiore, Major Geoffrey, 421

Sebag-Montefiore, Sir Joseph, 357n

Sebag-Montefiore, Captain William, 420n

Sebaste, 82

Sebastopol, 347

Sebeos, Bishop, 176

Second Balkan War, 395

Second Wall, 3, 363n

Sedgwick, Sergeant James, 418

Selassie, Haile, Emperor, 400n, 441, 457, 519

Seleucids, 56–7, 61, 65–8, 72–3, 76n

Seleucos, 57n

Selim the Grim, Sultan, 291

Selim II, Sultan, 297

Selim III, Sultan, 318

Semiramis Hotel, 432, 469

Sennacherib, King of Assyria, 35–8, 457

Sephardic Jews, 20, 24, 191n, 293–4, 298, 300, 308, 324, 330, 345–6, 359–60, 384, 510

Sephoria, 245

Septimus Severus, Emperor, 138

Serbs, 296

Sergei Alexandrovich, Grand Duke, 368–9, 386

seven veils, dance of, 96n

Seventh Day Adventists, 337n

Seward, William H., 347n

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th

Earl of, xxv, 331–4, 337, 350, 354

shahada, 176n, 184

Shaizar, 224

Shajar ad-Durr, Sultana, 271, 272n

Shalmaneser, King of Assyria, 31, 32n

Shaltiel, David, 479

Shamir, Yitzhak, 481

Shams al-Din, 268

Sharon, Ariel, 358n, 494, 504–6, 509

Shea, General John, 418, 420

Sheba, Queen of, 26, 157n

Shechem, 18, 30

Sheikh Jarrah, 58n, 364–5, 385, 442–3, 469, 473, 478–9, 483, 488, 496, 511, 517

Shema, 102

Sheshbazzar, King, 48

Sheshonq, pharaoh, 28–31

Shihabis, 519

Shiloh, 18

Shirin, Queen of Persia, 162

Shirkuh, Amir, 239–41, 251

shofar, 437, 462, 497

Shuqayri, Ahmed, 445, 491

Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem, 244–6, 249–50, 256

Sicarii, 116, 120, 123

Sicily, 71, 194, 218, 257, 266–7

Sidon, 217, 249, 316n, 383

Sigurd, King of Norway, 217

Sikorski, General Wladslaw, 458

Siloam Pool and Tunnel, 36–7, 43, 99–100, 103n, 156, 365

Silwan, 35n, 329, 506, 508n, 511

St Simeon, 154

Simon the Great, the Maccabee, see Maccabees

Simon, builder of the Temple, 87

Simon, cousin of Jesus, 10, 119

Simon, ‘prince of princes’, 93n

Simon, son of Cleophas, 92n, 132–3

Simon II, the Just, 58–9, 384

Simon ben Giora, 8, 125, 129

Simon of Cyrene, 106

Sinai, 49, 61, 380, 407, 490, 492, 493–4, 505

Sind, 183

al-Siqilli, Jawhar, see Jawhar

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 197n

Six Day War, xxv, 490–98, 519

slingers, 19n

Smith, George Adam, 418

Smith, Joseph, 338

Smith, Sir Sidney, 317–18, 321–2, 331

Smyrna, 302

Socrates Scholasticus, 148n

Solomon, King, 7, 23, 25–30, 40, 85, 157n, 159, 217, 305

and Islam, 170, 175, 182, 185

relics of, 152

Solomon’s mines, 28

Somalia, 26

Sophronius, Patriarch, 173–5

Soviet Union, 415, 433, 440n, 455, 465, 492, 502

Sozomen, 147n

Spafford, Anna, 365

Spafford-Vester, Bertha, 365, 390, 392, 396, 418, 420, 441, 473, 488–9

Spafford, Horatio, 364–6

Spafford, Jacob, 37n

Spain, 134, 200n, 230, 240

reconquest of, 285, 293–4

Spanish Inquisition, 294

Spartacus slave rebellion, 73, 106n

Special Night Squads, 451–2

Special Squads, 463

Springs of Cresson, 246

Stables of Solomon, 85, 150, 219, 226, 509

Stalin, Josef, 382n, 440n, 461, 462n, 463, 476, 489

Stanhope, Lady Hester, 321–2

Stanley, Dean Arthur, 353–4

Stations of the Cross, 106n

Stepashin, Stephan, 515n

St Stephen, 110, 152n

St Stephen’s Gate, 417

Stern, Abraham, 458

Stonehenge, 14

stoning, 59

Storrs, Sir Ronald, xxv, 404, 406, 417n, 422–4, 429–30, 434–6, 478

Strait of Tiran, 492–3

Strategos, 162

stylites, 154

Sudan, 26, 355n, 365, 402

Suetonius, 111

Suez Canal, 325, 355, 362, 397, 490, 504

Sufism, 197n, 276, 280–1, 303–4

suicide bombings, 507, 508, 513, 518n

Suleiman, Caliph, 186

Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan, 146n, 291–7, 343

Suleiman Pasha, the Just, 320, 322

Sulla, 73

Supreme Muslim Council, 436, 439

Suqman, 203

Susa, 50n, 51, 370

Swedish Evangelical Church, 365

Sweyn Godwinson, Earl, 201

Switzerland, 409

Sykes, Sir Mark, 405, 414–15

Sykes–Picot Agreement, 405–7, 415, 428

Syria, 22, 31, 33, 41, 57n, 82, 116, 140, 215, 218, 355, 442, 456, 492

and Albanian conquest, 327, 334

and Arab conquests, 173, 177–8, 181, 187, 190–1, 194

and archaeology, 354

and desert monks, 154

and division of Middle East, 403, 405–7, 415, 422, 424–8, 431–3, 454, 465–6

and Grand Mufti’s revolt, 448, 454

and Islamic sultanate, 243–4, 251, 265–6, 271, 272n

and Israeli wars, 474–5, 492, 504

and Mongol raids, 275, 277

Nur al-Din’s conquest, 236, 238, 241

and Persian conquesst, 161, 163–4

Roman occupation, 72, 74–6, 80

and Tamurlane’s conquest, 282–3

and the Three Pashas, 395–6

and UAR, 490–1

Syriac Orthodox Church, 157n, 310

al-Tabari, 172n

Tabernacles, 59n, 67–8, 70, 98

Tabor Mountain, Battle of, 316

Tacitus, 9, 99n, 116, 125, 130, 133

Taki al-Din, 247, 253, 259

Talaat Pasha, Mehmet, 395, 400, 414, 416n

Talal, King of Jordan, 484

Talbieh, 335, 346, 352, 400n, 443, 466

Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice, Prince de, 312

Talmud, 83, 132, 136, 191

Talpiot, 444, 452, 467n

Tamar, 24

Tamara, Queen of Georgia, 296n

Tamurlane, 282–4

Tanakh, 16, 55

Tancred de Hauteville, 208, 210–12

Tankiz, Viceroy, 280–1

Tartars, 270–1

Tbilisi, 416n, 461n

Tegart forts, 450

Teima, 46

Tel Aviv, 383, 438, 452, 455, 463, 468, 470, 474, 487, 501, 511

Tel Dan stele, xxiv, 22, 32n

telegraph, 356

Tell al-Jahudiya, 66n

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