Idumeans, 71, 125
al-Ikhshid, Muhammad Ibn Tughi, 191
Ikhshid tombs, 193n
Il-Ghazi, 203, 219–20
Imad al-Din, 247, 251n, 254, 258
Imperial Hotel, 444, 518
Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, 368, 386n
India, 50n, 304, 311, 403
Indus, river, 54, 57n
Industrial Revolution, 331
Intifadas, 503–4, 507
Iran, 73, 180n, 181, 186–7, 454
Jewish community, 34n, 48n
Iraq, 30, 36, 64, 73, 101, 134, 150, 180n, 186, 218, 234, 236, 382n, 404
and Arab conquest, 172, 178, 180–1
and Arab Revolt, 403, 405
and division of Middle East, 432, 446, 454, 467–8
and Grand Mufti’s revolt, 448, 454
and Islamic sultanate, 243, 251, 253, 262
and Israeli wars, 477, 494
Jewish community, 34n, 48n, 133, 486
and Persian conquest, 161, 163
Iraq War, 209, 406
Ireland, 409
Ireneos, Patriarch, 520–1
Irgun Zvai Leumi, 439, 450, 453, 457–60, 464–7, 470, 472, 475, 479, 503n
Isaac, son of Abraham, 16, 27n, 39n, 86
Isaac Angelus, 263
Isabella, Queen of Castile, 293–4
Isabella, Queen of Jerusalem, 256n, 265n
Isaiah, prophet, 33–5, 38, 95, 97, 100–1
Isfahan, 283
Ishbosheth, 21
Islam, 10, 483
early, 170–1, 174, 176, 178, 180–1, 184
and offers of conversion, 248–9
Ismail, Imam, 194
Ismail, Shah, 288
Israel
and Assyrian conquest, 31–4
coinage, 124, 136
and dysfunctional democracy, 511n
founding of modern state, xxiv, 326, 475–6
and the Maccabees, 65n
revolt against Romans, 123–4, 136
and Six Day War, 492–8
and Suez crisis, 490
union and split with Judah, 21–2, 25, 30–1
war of independence, 458n, 476–82
Israel Defence Forces, 452, 491
Israelites, xviii, 15–20, 25–9
Lost Tribes, 34, 297n, 322, 337–8
Israelovsky Regiment, 311n
Israfil, Archangel of Death, 185n
Israiliyyat, 176
Istanbul, 293, 295–6, 302–3, 306, 311, 315n, 327, 330, 333–5, 342–3, 356, 360–1, 370, 377, 389, 393–4, 400, 402, 405n, 416n, 454n
Italy, 71, 73, 143, 269, 270n, 295
Italian Jews, 454
Iturea, 69
Ivan the Terrible, 146n
ivory, 28
Izzat Bey, 417
Jabiya, 174
Jabotinsky, Vladimir, 421, 423, 428–31, 437–9, 458–9, 499
Jacob (Israel), 16
Jacob Baradeus, 157n
Jacobs, Julius, 426n
Jacobson, Eddie, 461, 473
Jaffa, 268, 271, 310, 329, 339, 355–6, 363, 394, 418, 448, 450
and Crusades, 209–10, 215–16, 219, 249, 258, 262
and Jerusalem railway, 348–9
and Napoleonic invasion, 312, 316–18
and Parker fiasco, 391–2
see also Joppa
Jaffa Gate, 104, 208, 268, 288, 292n, 319, 343, 347, 349, 356, 363–4, 377, 384, 397, 400, 418–21, 424, 441, 444, 451–3, 469, 473, 479, 519
Jaffa Road, 356, 363, 384, 417–18
St James, 115, 119n
St James the Just (James, brother of Jesus), 107, 109–10, 115, 117–19, 124, 144
St James’s Cathedral, 233n, 285, 318n
St Jameses Cathedral, 119n, 162, 277
James I, King, 300
James, King of Aragon, 279
James, brother of Jesus, see St James the Just
Jameson Raid, 389n
Jamra, 188
Jaqmaq, Sultan, 286, 287n
al-Jarallah, Sheikh Husam, 481 see Jarallah
Jason, 61
Jawhariyyeh, Wasif, xxv, 384–5, 388, 390, 395, 397–401, 417, 419–20, 429, 435, 444–5, 449, 453, 456–7, 471–4
Jawhar al-Siqili, 193
Jazzar Pasha, Ahmet, 315–18
Jebusites, 15, 18, 21–2
Jefferson, Thomas, President, 336
Jeharah, King of Judah, 31
Jehoash, King, 32–3
Jehoiakim, King, 41, 45
Jehoshaphat Gate, 240
Jehovah’s Witnesses, 337n
Jehu, King, 32
Jem Sultan, Crown Prince, 288
Jemal Pasha, 395–8, 400, 403, 407–8, 414, 416, 419, 489
Jeremiah, prophet, 41–3, 44n, 100n, 101, 301
Jericho, 13–14, 17n, 43, 71, 79–80, 84n, 90–1, 125, 163, 210, 276, 363, 465, 479
Jeroboam, 29–30
St Jerome, 151–4, 160
Jerusalem
Albanian conquest, 326–30
American obsession with, 329n, 336–9
Arab conquest, 173–7, 181–6
and archaeology, 354–6, 390
and Assyrian threat, 36–8
Babylonian destruction, 1, 9, 42–4
British conquest, 416–26
British withdrawal, 465–71
Byzantine city, 159–60
canine pogrom, 307–8
Christian pilgrims, 200–1, 226–7, 284–5, 327–8
Crusader city, 225–32, 235–6
Crusader conquest, 203–20
David’s conquest, 21–23
divided city, 481–9
earthquakes, 149–50, 155, 187, 200
evangelists and visitors, 331–58
Fatimid conquest, 193–5
and Grand Mufti’s revolt, 448–54
Hadrian’s city, 135n
as heavenly city, 10, 33–4, 117, 133, 140, 197
Hellenization, 59–62
Herod’s rebuilding, 82–7
Hezekiah’s city, 35
Islamic city, 264–5
Islamic conquest, 249–50, 253–4
and Israeli rule, 503–23
Kaiser’s visit, 377–80
and life of Jesus, 98–106
Mamluk conquest, 271–2, 276–88
modern life, 515–20
modernist city, 440–5
and Mongol raids, 272, 275, 277–8
multiplicity of names, 176n, 521–2
nineteenth-century city, 359–66
Ottoman conquest, 291–3
Persian conquest, 161–4
Persian rebuilding, 49–51
riots, 429–30, 436–8, 506–7, 509–10
Roman destruction, 1–10
Roman restoration, 145–6, 149–50
Roman suppression, 134–9
and Russian pilgrims, 353, 369, 385–7, 392, 405n
security wall, 509, 512
situation and name, 13–14
and Six Day War, 492–5
Tartar conquest, 271–2
theocracy and power struggle, 58–9
and Three Pashas, 394–401
and Turkoman conquest, 202–3
Jerusalem Academy, 191n, 195
Jerusalem Brigade, 470, 497
Jerusalem Chapels, 285
Jerusalem Chess Club, 424
Jerusalem Emergency Committee, 474
Jerusalem Families, xxiv, 177, 316, 329, 351, 370, 384, 398–9, 420, 442, 472, 474, 508n, 518, 521
ascendancy of, 308–9, 360–1, 364, 385, 434–5
and Israeli war, 481, 483–4, 488
and land sales, 394, 437
Jerusalem Syndrome, xxi, 341–2, 437–8, 499, 501–2
Jesse, of Bethlehem, 19
Jesus, prophet, 120–1
Jesus Christ, 4, 10, 34, 48n, 87, 90, 135, 148n, 150, 165n, 427, 461
his circumcision, 222
and early Christians, 117–19, 122, 133–4, 136
and Gnostics, 140n
and icons, 229
and Islam, 170, 185, 519
his life, 91, 93–4, 96–110
and Manichaeanism, 144n
relics of, 146–7, 152, 162, 229
his tomb, 146–7, 165n, 271, 300, 320
and William Blake, 321n
Jewish Agency, 445, 457, 461–5, 475, 481, 503n
Jewish Auxiliaries, 452
Jewish calendar, 27
Jewish Legion, 421, 430
Jewish observances, 45, 54, 59
Jesus and, 97–8
Jewish Quarter, 8, 35n, 36, 43, 159n, 191, 255, 286, 295, 298, 308, 335, 345, 511, 518
and Buraq Uprising, 438
and Israeli war, 468, 479–80
restoration of, 503–4
and Six Day War, 497
Jewish revolt, 1–10, 122–6
Jewish Settlement Police, 450–1
Jewish settlements, 506, 508, 515–16
Jewish Territorial Organization, 382
Jews
and Albanian conquest, 330
American, 428, 502
anti-Zionist, 410, 414, 421, 486
and Arab conquest, 176, 179, 183, 186
Ashkenazi, 20, 191n, 298, 308, 330, 443
and Babylonian exile, 45, 47–50
British, 257, 277n, 301, 350