Mustansir, Caliph, 200n
Mustasim, Caliph, 190
Mycenae, 14–15
Nabataea, 88n
Nabataeans, 81
Nabi Daoud, 295
Nabi Musa festival, 276, 308n, 361, 388, 391–2
Nabi Musa riots, 429–31, 435
Nabi Samuel, 416–17
Nablus, 236, 246, 270, 318, 327, 329, 365, 391, 417, 447, 449, 484
Nabonidus, King of Babylon, 46
Nabopolassar, 39
Nachmanides, Ramban, 278–9
al-Nadim, 190n
Nahalavat Shiva, 364
Nahum, prophet, 36
Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor, 311–12, 315–18, 320–1, 323, 326, 374, 427, 446
Napoleon III, Emperor, 342–3, 348, 355, 380n
al-Naqashibi, Nasir al-Din, 435n
Narkiss, General Uzi, 494–7
Nashashibi family, 435n, 438–9, 442, 489
Fakhri Bey al-Nashashibi, 449
Nassereddin al-Nashashibi, 435, 443, 463, 484–5
Ragheb al-Nashashibi, 385, 394, 399, 422, 435–6, 439, 441, 448–9, 453, 478, 483
Nasi, Joseph, 295, 297
Nasir Daud, Sultan, 268, 270–1
Nasir Muhammad, Sultan, 278, 279–81, 344n
Nasir-i-Khusrau, 200–1
Nasser, Colonel Gamal Abdul, President, 485, 489–90, 492–8, 506, 519
Nathan, prophet, 23, 25
Naumov, Bishop Cyril, 386
Navarino, Battle of, 327
Nazarenes, 109–10, 115
Nazareth, 95, 275, 416
Nea Church, 159–60, 162
Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, xix, 9, 41–6, 59, 65, 374, 388–9
Nebuzardan, 43–4
Necho, pharaoh, 41
Negev, 481, 493, 516
Neguib, General Muhammad, 482
Nehemiah (cup-bearer), 51, 54, 56n
Nehemiah (Jewish leader), 162–3
Nelson, Admiral Horatio, 312, 494
Nero, Emperor, 2, 60, 116, 118–21, 124, 126
Nerva, Emperor, 133
Nestorians, 157
Nestorius, Patriarch, 156
Netanyahu, Binyamin, 507–8, 514
Netzer, Ehud, 92n
New Jerusalem Monastery, 340n
New Salem, Illinois, 347n
New York, 476, 489
New York Times, 378, 392
Newgate Prison, 322
Nicanor, 66
Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia, 339–43, 347, 350
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 369, 379, 382–3, 386, 387n, 413, 444n
Night of the Bridges, 464
Nikolai Hostel, 463, 475
Nikolaus of Damascus, 82
Nikon, Patriarch, 340n
Nile, river, 135, 218, 271
NILI, 407
Nineveh, 31, 36, 38–9
NKVD, 461
Noah, 298
Nob, 20
Noble Sanctuary, 281
North Korea, 489
Northern Rhodesia, 436
Notable Families, see Jerusalem Families
Nottingham, 257n
Nubia, 28
Numrud, 32n
Nur al-Din, Atabeg, 234–43, 251
his minbar, 237, 254, 269, 502
Nuremberg trials, 439n
Nusaybah, 177n
Nusseibeh family, 177n, 263, 298, 308n, 309, 361, 420, 442, 488, 491, 520
Anwar al-Nusseibeh, 442, 465–6, 468–9, 475–6, 479, 481n, 488, 491
Hazem al-Nusseibeh, 308n, 420n, 442, 444–5, 448, 456, 483, 488
Obadah al-Nusseibeh, 520
Sari al-Nusseibeh, 442, 483, 486–9, 491, 515, 518
Wajeeh al-Nusseibeh, 517–20
Obadiah of Bertinoro, Rabbi, 288
Obama, Barack, President, 512, 516n
Octavia, 82n
Octavian, see Augustus, Emperor
Odessa, 339, 353, 367, 383, 386, 421
Officers Club, 442, 464
Olivet, 288, 338, 365, 444n
Olmert, Ehud, 508, 515–16
Olympic Games, 124
Omar, 172, 174–8
Omar II, Caliph, 186, 255, 291, 304, 420n, 508, 520
Onias II, 56, 61
Onias IV, 66n, 67n, 70n
Operation Agatha, 465
Operation Nachshon, 471
Operation Tariq, 494
Ophel hill, 15, 21n, 22, 24, 355, 390, 393
Orad II, King of Parthia, 73, 76n
Order of Caroline, 323
Order of St Lazarus, 242n
Order of the Holy Sepulchre, 320
Orient Express, 376
Orient House, 364, 505
Orleans, 238
Orthodox Church, 157, 160, 189, 255, 486, 488
and religious conflict, 201, 296, 299–300, 310, 320, 331, 339–40, 343, 348, 424, 488, 519–20
Ortuq bin Aksab, 203
Oslo peace talks, 506, 507n, 514
Osorkon, pharaoh, 31
ostraca, 42n
Othman, 178, 181
Ottoman Cossacks, 343n
Ottoman empire, 296–7, 326–30, 333–4, 341, 343, 361–2, 380
military defeat, 416–26
and the Three Pashas, 394–401, 403, 415n
Ottoman Land Law, 364n
Outrejourdain, 243, 264
Outremer, 215, 225–32, 249
William’s history, 239, 245n
Overcomers, 364–6
Oxford, 333, 442, 445
Oz, Amos, 438, 441, 444, 457, 465, 467, 483, 486–7, 516
Pacorus, Prince, 76
Pact of Omar, 177n
Pahlavan knights, 76n
Pakistan, 53–4
Palace Hotel, 441
Palaestina, 137, 149, 154, 165
Palermo, 218, 266–7, 270n
Palestine (nation and state), 19n, 380, 431, 453–4, 478, 504, 513
British Mandate, 428, 431, 433, 465, 473
partition, 466–7, 475
Palestine Arab Party, 449
Palestine Exploration Fund, 354–5, 363n
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), 491, 503–4, 505–6, 508
Palestine National Council, 478n
Palestine Post, 457, 465, 469
Palestine Society, 517n
Palestinian Authority, 364, 507, 510
Palestinian Christians, 218
Palm Sunday, 191, 218, 227, 387
Palmach, 456–7, 463, 469, 471, 474, 479
Palmerston, Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount, xxv, 331–2, 334
Palmyran empire, 140
Paltiel, 194–5
pan-Arabism, 486, 489, 504
Pannychis, 89
paradise, 48n
Paris, 150, 207n, 238, 285, 339, 347n, 352, 373, 380n, 462
Versailles peace talks, 426–8
Parker, Monty, (later Earl of Morley), 388–93
Parry, Sir Hubert, 321n, 426
Parsons, Levi, 337
Parthians, 68, 73, 75–8, 81, 130, 133, 139
Pasargadae, 49
Paschal II, Pope, 219
Passfield, Lord (Sidney Webb), 438
Passover, 35, 40, 50, 59, 159, 324n, 360, 363n, 369, 388, 471, 517
and blood libel, 333, 336
Jesus and, 98–102, 107–9, 148
and longing for Jerusalem, 139, 374
St Paul, 117–18, 121, 143
Paul, Emperor of Russia, 342
Paul VI, Pope, 491
Paula, 151–2
Paulinus, 155–6
Peel, William, 1st
Earl, 448
Peel, Sir Robert, 334
Pentecost, 103n, 109
Pepys, Samuel, 304
Peres, Shimon, President, 494, 506–7, 514, 515
Pergami, Bartolomeo, 322–3
Persephone, 385
Persepolis, 50n
Persia, 63, 181, 458
Persian Gulf, 35
Persians, 46–53, 73, 75, 139–40, 150, 161–4, 288
Petah Tikvah, 374
St Peter, 98, 102n, 104, 109, 115, 121, 151
Peter, Bishop of Winchester, 270
Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia, 146n, 340
Peter, King of Yugoslavia, 456
Peter the Georgian, 156n
St Petersburg, 339, 350, 368, 370, 380, 386, 415
Petra, 71, 98
Petronius, 112
Pharisees, 70, 72, 98, 100, 102, 105
Pharos lighthouse, 55
Phasael, 74
Phasael tower, 84, 93
Pheroras, 81, 88n
Philip II Augustus, King, 257–8, 260n
Philip II, King of Macedon, 52
Philip II, King of Spain, 278n
Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, 444n, 454n
Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg, 376–8
Philippa, Princess, 238
Philippi, Battle of, 75
Philistines, 18–20, 23, 137
Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, 99n
Phoenicia, 81
Phoenician temples, 28
Phoenicians, 22, 26, 39n
photography, 363, 378
Picot, Francois-Georges, 405, 420, 424
Pilgrim Strangers, 338
Pinsk, 409
Pinsker, Leo, 374
Pitt, William, the Elder, Earl of Chatham, 413
Pitt, William, the Younger, 322
plague, 256, 258, 332