Sebag-Montefiore, Major Geoffrey, 421
Sebag-Montefiore, Sir Joseph, 357n
Sebag-Montefiore, Captain William, 420n
Sebaste, 82
Sebastopol, 347
Sebeos, Bishop, 176
Second Balkan War, 395
Second Wall, 3, 363n
Sedgwick, Sergeant James, 418
Selassie, Haile, Emperor, 400n, 441, 457, 519
Seleucids, 56–7, 61, 65–8, 72–3, 76n
Seleucos, 57n
Selim the Grim, Sultan, 291
Selim II, Sultan, 297
Selim III, Sultan, 318
Semiramis Hotel, 432, 469
Sennacherib, King of Assyria, 35–8, 457
Sephardic Jews, 20, 24, 191n, 293–4, 298, 300, 308, 324, 330, 345–6, 359–60, 384, 510
Sephoria, 245
Septimus Severus, Emperor, 138
Serbs, 296
Sergei Alexandrovich, Grand Duke, 368–9, 386
seven veils, dance of, 96n
Seventh Day Adventists, 337n
Seward, William H., 347n
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th
Earl of, xxv, 331–4, 337, 350, 354
shahada, 176n, 184
Shaizar, 224
Shajar ad-Durr, Sultana, 271, 272n
Shalmaneser, King of Assyria, 31, 32n
Shaltiel, David, 479
Shamir, Yitzhak, 481
Shams al-Din, 268
Sharon, Ariel, 358n, 494, 504–6, 509
Shea, General John, 418, 420
Sheba, Queen of, 26, 157n
Shechem, 18, 30
Sheikh Jarrah, 58n, 364–5, 385, 442–3, 469, 473, 478–9, 483, 488, 496, 511, 517
Shema, 102
Sheshbazzar, King, 48
Sheshonq, pharaoh, 28–31
Shihabis, 519
Shiloh, 18
Shirin, Queen of Persia, 162
Shirkuh, Amir, 239–41, 251
shofar, 437, 462, 497
Shuqayri, Ahmed, 445, 491
Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem, 244–6, 249–50, 256
Sicarii, 116, 120, 123
Sicily, 71, 194, 218, 257, 266–7
Sidon, 217, 249, 316n, 383
Sigurd, King of Norway, 217
Sikorski, General Wladslaw, 458
Siloam Pool and Tunnel, 36–7, 43, 99–100, 103n, 156, 365
Silwan, 35n, 329, 506, 508n, 511
St Simeon, 154
Simon the Great, the Maccabee, see Maccabees
Simon, builder of the Temple, 87
Simon, cousin of Jesus, 10, 119
Simon, ‘prince of princes’, 93n
Simon, son of Cleophas, 92n, 132–3
Simon II, the Just, 58–9, 384
Simon ben Giora, 8, 125, 129
Simon of Cyrene, 106
Sinai, 49, 61, 380, 407, 490, 492, 493–4, 505
Sind, 183
al-Siqilli, Jawhar, see Jawhar
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 197n
Six Day War, xxv, 490–98, 519
slingers, 19n
Smith, George Adam, 418
Smith, Joseph, 338
Smith, Sir Sidney, 317–18, 321–2, 331
Smyrna, 302
Socrates Scholasticus, 148n
Solomon, King, 7, 23, 25–30, 40, 85, 157n, 159, 217, 305
and Islam, 170, 175, 182, 185
relics of, 152
Solomon’s mines, 28
Somalia, 26
Sophronius, Patriarch, 173–5
Soviet Union, 415, 433, 440n, 455, 465, 492, 502
Sozomen, 147n
Spafford, Anna, 365
Spafford-Vester, Bertha, 365, 390, 392, 396, 418, 420, 441, 473, 488–9
Spafford, Horatio, 364–6
Spafford, Jacob, 37n
Spain, 134, 200n, 230, 240
reconquest of, 285, 293–4
Spanish Inquisition, 294
Spartacus slave rebellion, 73, 106n
Special Night Squads, 451–2
Special Squads, 463
Springs of Cresson, 246
Stables of Solomon, 85, 150, 219, 226, 509
Stalin, Josef, 382n, 440n, 461, 462n, 463, 476, 489
Stanhope, Lady Hester, 321–2
Stanley, Dean Arthur, 353–4
Stations of the Cross, 106n
Stepashin, Stephan, 515n
St Stephen, 110, 152n
St Stephen’s Gate, 417
Stern, Abraham, 458
Stonehenge, 14
stoning, 59
Storrs, Sir Ronald, xxv, 404, 406, 417n, 422–4, 429–30, 434–6, 478
Strait of Tiran, 492–3
Strategos, 162
stylites, 154
Sudan, 26, 355n, 365, 402
Suetonius, 111
Suez Canal, 325, 355, 362, 397, 490, 504
Sufism, 197n, 276, 280–1, 303–4
suicide bombings, 507, 508, 513, 518n
Suleiman, Caliph, 186
Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan, 146n, 291–7, 343
Suleiman Pasha, the Just, 320, 322
Sulla, 73
Supreme Muslim Council, 436, 439
Suqman, 203
Susa, 50n, 51, 370
Swedish Evangelical Church, 365
Sweyn Godwinson, Earl, 201
Switzerland, 409
Sykes, Sir Mark, 405, 414–15
Sykes–Picot Agreement, 405–7, 415, 428
Syria, 22, 31, 33, 41, 57n, 82, 116, 140, 215, 218, 355, 442, 456, 492
and Albanian conquest, 327, 334
and Arab conquests, 173, 177–8, 181, 187, 190–1, 194
and archaeology, 354
and desert monks, 154
and division of Middle East, 403, 405–7, 415, 422, 424–8, 431–3, 454, 465–6
and Grand Mufti’s revolt, 448, 454
and Islamic sultanate, 243–4, 251, 265–6, 271, 272n
and Israeli wars, 474–5, 492, 504
and Mongol raids, 275, 277
Nur al-Din’s conquest, 236, 238, 241
and Persian conquesst, 161, 163–4
Roman occupation, 72, 74–6, 80
and Tamurlane’s conquest, 282–3
and the Three Pashas, 395–6
and UAR, 490–1
Syriac Orthodox Church, 157n, 310
al-Tabari, 172n
Tabernacles, 59n, 67–8, 70, 98
Tabor Mountain, Battle of, 316
Tacitus, 9, 99n, 116, 125, 130, 133
Taki al-Din, 247, 253, 259
Talaat Pasha, Mehmet, 395, 400, 414, 416n
Talal, King of Jordan, 484
Talbieh, 335, 346, 352, 400n, 443, 466
Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice, Prince de, 312
Talmud, 83, 132, 136, 191
Talpiot, 444, 452, 467n
Tamar, 24
Tamara, Queen of Georgia, 296n
Tamurlane, 282–4
Tanakh, 16, 55
Tancred de Hauteville, 208, 210–12
Tankiz, Viceroy, 280–1
Tartars, 270–1
Tbilisi, 416n, 461n
Tegart forts, 450
Teima, 46
Tel Aviv, 383, 438, 452, 455, 463, 468, 470, 474, 487, 501, 511
Tel Dan stele, xxiv, 22, 32n
telegraph, 356
Tell al-Jahudiya, 66n
Temple
anti-Temple traditions, 99–100
Babylonian destruction, 44
Foundation Stone, 148, 508n, 509, 515
Herod’s Temple, 84–7, 183, 295, 354n
and Jewish commemoration, 374
and Jewish revolt, 1–10, 122–3, 125, 131–2
Julian’s rebuilding, 150
and life of Jesus, 99–102, 104, 109–10
and Maimonides’ grieving, 240–1
and PLO denial, 505–6, 508
Roman depredations, 72–3, 78
Second Temple, 49–50, 85
Solomon’s Temple, 7, 25–8, 50, 85, 159, 183
spoliation under Antiochus, 62–3
Third Temple, 437, 502, 505
treasures, 7–8, 31, 33, 51, 60, 129, 130n, 159
Temple Institute, 86n
Temple Mount, xix, xxi, 9, 16, 72, 122–3, 147–9, 195, 241, 361, 400, 420, 434, 488
and Albanian conquest, 327
and Arab conquests, 170, 175–9, 182–3, 185, 190–1, 200
and Arab Revolt, 448
and archaeology, 355, 379
and Crusaders, 211–12, 221, 227–9, 270
and European visitors, 322, 325, 348–9, 378–9, 422
Herod’s constructions, 67n, 71, 85
and Intifada, 503
and Islamic sultanate, 254, 268–9
and Israeli wars, 466, 492–5
and Jewish festivals, 153–4
Jewish picnics, 58n, 384
and Mamluk sultanate, 276, 280, 284, 286, 288
negotiations and access, 509–10, 514–16, 517
and Ottoman sultanate, 291–3, 295, 299n, 304, 307–8
and Parker fiasco, 389, 391–2
reconsecration, 162
Roman constructions, 134–6, 138
sacred status, 27–8, 152n and Second Coming, 502–4
and Seljuk conquest, 202
tomb of King Hussein, 479, 484
tunnel construction, 509
and World Islamic Conference, 439
see also Haram al-Sharif Temple Mount Faithful, 503