Fundamentalist Islam and Israel
Fundamentalist Islam and Israel

Author: Raphael Israeli

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780819191991

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This book provides an in-depth account and analysis of Islamic fundamentalism today, and how it has an impact on Israel's relations with the Arab and Islamic worlds. In light of recent events, the book is important for the whole Western world, which now confronts revivalist Islam, both in the Middle East and Europe itself, and even in such far-flung fragments of European civilization as the United States and Australia. This book should be of great help for the West in developing a proper understanding of, and a strategy for dealing with, this movement. Co-published with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

Jerusalem and Its Role in Islamic Solidarity
Jerusalem and Its Role in Islamic Solidarity

Author: Y. Reiter

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-05-26

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 0230612717

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The book deals with the role of Jerusalem as a central religious-political symbol, and with the processes by which symbols of faith and sanctity are being employed in a political struggle. It examines the current Islamic ethos towards Jerusalem and the affinity between this religious ethos and the political aspirations of the Palestinians and other Arab and Islamic groups. It also compares current Jewish and Muslim narratives and processes of denial and de-legitimizing the affiliation of the other to the holy city and its sacred shrines and addresses the question whether religious outlook forms a major barrier for achieving peace in the Israeli-Arab arena.

Mamluk Jerusalem
Mamluk Jerusalem

Author: Michael Hamilton Burgoyne

Publisher: Tajir Trust

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13:

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A survey of the Mameluke architecture in Jerusalem carried out by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem beginning in 1968.

The Second Crusade
The Second Crusade

Author: Jonathan Phillips

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-01-08

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0300168365

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The Second Crusade (1145-1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts. Crusader armies set out to defeat Muslims in the Holy Land and in Iberia as well as pagans in northeastern Europe. But, to the shock and dismay of a society raised on the triumphant legacy of the First Crusade, only in Iberia did they achieve any success. This book, the first in 140 years devoted to the Second Crusade, fills a major gap in our understanding of the Crusades and their importance in medieval European history. Historian Jonathan Phillips draws on the latest developments in Crusade studies to cast new light on the origins, planning, and execution of the Second Crusade, some of its more radical intentions, and its unprecedented ambition. With original insights into the legacy of the First Crusade and the roles of Pope Eugenius III and King Conrad III of Germany, Phillips offers the definitive work on this neglected Crusade that, despite its failed objectives, exerted a profound impact across Europe and the eastern Mediterranean.

Jerusalem in Muhammad’s Strategy
Jerusalem in Muhammad’s Strategy

Author: Abdallah Ma’rouf Omar

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-07-24

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1527537358

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This book is the first to study the detailed political relationship between the Prophet Muhammad and Jerusalem in a number of Muslim sources. Usually, the study of this relationship in Muslim sources has always been limited to the oral traditions of the Prophet Muhammad on the virtues of Jerusalem, the Holy Land and al-Aqsa Mosque, in addition to Muhammad’s famous Night Journey. This book takes this issue in a new direction, revealing that the Prophet Muhammad was, in fact, the true planner of the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem that took place five years after his death. This conquest marked a major shift in the history of the Holy Land and changed the face of that region. This book opens the gate for understanding the way in which the Prophet Muhammad shaped the image of Jerusalem and built its status in the Muslim mind.