Jerusalem by Montefiore, Simon Sebag -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Contents List of Illustrations Lists of Family Trees Lists of Maps Preface 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 Illustrations

Section One Section Two Section Three Section Four

Family Trees Maps Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index A Note About the Author Additional Images

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