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Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths

Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths

"SPLENDID . . . Eminently sane and patient . . . Essential reading for Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike."
--The Washington Post

Venerated for millennia by three faiths, torn by irreconcilable conflict, conquered, rebuilt, and mourned for again and again, Jerusalem is a sacred city whose very sacredness has engendered terrible tragedy. In this fascinating volume, Karen Armstrong, author of the highly praised A History of God, traces the history of how Jews, Christians, and Muslims have all laid claim to Jerusalem as their holy place, and how three radically different concepts of holiness have shaped and scarred the city for thousands of years.

Armstrong unfolds a complex story of spiritual upheaval and political transformation--from King David's capital to an administrative outpost of the Roman Empire, from the cosmopolitan city sanctified by Christ to the spiritual center conquered and glorified by Muslims, from the gleaming prize of European Crusaders to the bullet-ridden symbol of the present-day Arab-Israeli conflict.

Written with grace and clarity, the product of years of meticulous research, Jerusalem combines the pageant of history with the profundity of searching spiritual analysis. Like Karen Armstrong's A History of God, Jerusalem is a book for the ages.

"THE BEST SERIOUS, ACCESSIBLE HISTORY OF THE MOST SPIRITUALLY IMPORTANT CITY IN THE WORLD."
--The Baltimore Sun

"A WORK OF IMPRESSIVE SWEEP AND GRANDEUR."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review

Introduction

Chapter 1. ZION

Chapter 2. ISRAEL

Chapter 3. CITY OF DAVID

Chapter 4. CITY OF JUDAH

Chapter 5. EXILE AND RETURN

Chapter 6. ANTIOCH IN JUDAEA

Chapter 7. DESTRUCTION

Chapter 8. AELIA CAPITOLINA

Chapter 9. THE NEW JERUSALEM

Chapter 10. CHRISTIAN HOLY CITY

Chapter 11. BAYT AL-MAQDIS

Chapter 12. AL-QUDS

Chapter 13. CRUSADE

Chapter 14. JIHAD

Chapter 15. OTTOMAN CITY

Chapter 16. REVIVAL

Chapter 17. ISRAEL

Chapter 18. ZION?

Notes

Bibliography

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