Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Chronology ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Inhabitants of Jerusalem 9
6. THE HEAVENLY CITY
7. 2. The Holy Places 37
8. 3. Jerusalem in Jewish Spirituality 60
9. 4. The Holy City in Christian Thought 74
10. 5. The Spiritual Meaning of Jerusalem in Islam 93
11. 6. Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land 117
12. 7. Jewish Pilgrimage after the Destruction of the Second Temple 136
13. THE EARTHLY CITY
14. 8. Jerusalem and Zionism 149
15. 9. Palestinian Images of Jerusalem 178
16. THE CITY IN LITERATURE, ART, AND ARCHITECTURE
17. 10. Jerusalem in Medieval Islamic Literature 205
18. 11. Nineteenth-Century Portraits through Western Eyes 218
19. 12. Depictions in Modern Hebrew Literature 241
20. 13. Geography and Geometry of Jerusalem 288
21. 14. Jerusalem Elsewhere 333
22. 15. The City in Jewish Folk Art 344
23. 16. The Image of the Holy City in Maps and Mapping 352
24. 17. Two Islamic Construction Plans for al-Haram al-Sharif 380
25. 18. Architecture of the City outside the Walls 417
26. Bibliography 459
27. Notes 463
28. Contributors 553
29. Illustration Credits 557
30. Acknowledgments 561