Jerusalem: The Biography

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

List of Family Trees and Maps

Preface

Acknowledgements

Notes on Names, Transliterations and Titles

Prologue

PART ONE: JUDAISM

1. The World of David

2. The Rise of David

3. The Kingdom and the Temple

4. The Kings of Judah

5. The Whore of Babylon

6. The Persians

7. The Macedonians

8. The Maccabees

9. The Romans Arrive

10. The Herods

11. Jesus Christ

12. The Last of the Herods

13. Jewish Wars: The Death of Jerusalem

PART TWO: PAGANISM

14. Aelia Capitolina

PART THREE CHRISTIANITY

15. The Apogee of Byzantium

16. Sunset of the Byzantines: Persian Invasion

PART FOUR: ISLAM

17. The Arab Conquest

18. The Umayyads: The Temple Restored

19. The Abbasids: Distant Masters

20. The Fatimids: Tolerance and Lunacy

PART FIVE: CRUSADE

21. The Slaughter

22. The Rise of Outremer

23. The Golden Age of Outremer

24. Stalemate

25. The Leper-King

26. Saladin

27. The Third Crusade: Saladin and Richard

28. The Saladin Dynasty

PART SIX: MAMLUK

29. Slave to Sultan

30. Decline of the Mamluks

PART SEVEN: OTTOMAN

31. The Magnificence of Suleiman

32. Mystics and Messiahs

33. The Families

PART EIGHT: EMPIRE

34. Napoleon in the Holy Land

35. The New Romantics: Chateaubriand and Disraeli

36. The Albanian Conquest

37. The Evangelists

38. The New City

39. The New Religion

40. Arab City, Imperial City

41. Russians

PART NINE: ZIONISM

42. The Kaiser

43. The Oud-Player Of Jerusalem

44. World War

45. Arab Revolt, Balfour Declaration

46. The Christmas Present

47. The Victors And The Spoils

48. The British Mandate

49. The Arab Revolt

50. The Dirty War

51. Jewish Independence, Arab Catastrophe

52. Divided

53. Six Days

Epilogue

Family Trees

Maps

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Copyright