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- catalog abstract "Jerusalem, the holiest of holy cities, revered and contested by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. The claims of the first two are amply and handsomely documented in a great spate of books, many of them eulogies or devotional tracts rather than histories. But it is Muslim Jerusalem that few of us comprehend, though the idea of it has run like a bloodily glowing thread through most of what has happened in the Middle East since 1948. Here F.E. Peters, an eminent historian of both Jerusalem and Islam, looks at that neglected side of this most publicized and controversial of cities. The Distant Shrine is neither a brief for a Muslim Jerusalem nor a polemic against Islam, but a serious and objective unfolding of what Jerusalem has meant to Muslims from their first settlement there down to the beginning of modern times. It is also history writing at its best: convincing in its grasp, comprehensive in its presentation, elegant in its expression. The Distant Shrine is that rarest of all histories: a work for the scholar and the layman alike.".
- catalog contributor b2725693.
- catalog coverage "Jerusalem History.".
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "1. Jerusalem: The Making of the City -- 2. Redefining the Holy Land: Christian Jerusalem -- 3. The Noble Sanctuary: Muslims on the Temple Mount -- 4. Experiments in Harmony: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Jerusalem (635-1000 A.D.) -- 5. A Pilgrimage in Arms: Jerusalem and the Crusades -- 6. A Colonial Interlude: The Latins in Jerusalem -- 7. Holy War, Holy City -- 8. "Until God Shall Inherit the Earth": The Islamicizing of Jerusalem -- 9. The Piety of Power: The Mamluks in Jerusalem -- 10. Pilgrim Voices: The Real and the Ideal in Medieval Jerusalem -- 11. City in the Desert: Jerusalem Under the Ottomans -- 12. Conclusion: Jerusalem, a Disputed Inheritance -- Appendix: The Sources for the History of Jerusalem.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-265) and index.".
- catalog description "Jerusalem, the holiest of holy cities, revered and contested by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. The claims of the first two are amply and handsomely documented in a great spate of books, many of them eulogies or devotional tracts rather than histories. But it is Muslim Jerusalem that few of us comprehend, though the idea of it has run like a bloodily glowing thread through most of what has happened in the Middle East since 1948. Here F.E. Peters, an eminent historian of both Jerusalem and Islam, looks at that neglected side of this most publicized and controversial of cities. The Distant Shrine is neither a brief for a Muslim Jerusalem nor a polemic against Islam, but a serious and objective unfolding of what Jerusalem has meant to Muslims from their first settlement there down to the beginning of modern times. It is also history writing at its best: convincing in its grasp, comprehensive in its presentation, elegant in its expression. The Distant Shrine is that rarest of all histories: a work for the scholar and the layman alike.".
- catalog extent "275 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Distant shrine.".
- catalog identifier "0404616291".
- catalog isFormatOf "Distant shrine.".
- catalog isPartOf "AMS studies in modern society ; no. 22".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : AMS Press,".
- catalog relation "Distant shrine.".
- catalog spatial "Jerusalem History.".
- catalog subject "956.94/42 20".
- catalog subject "DS109.916 .P48 1993".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Jerusalem: The Making of the City -- 2. Redefining the Holy Land: Christian Jerusalem -- 3. The Noble Sanctuary: Muslims on the Temple Mount -- 4. Experiments in Harmony: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Jerusalem (635-1000 A.D.) -- 5. A Pilgrimage in Arms: Jerusalem and the Crusades -- 6. A Colonial Interlude: The Latins in Jerusalem -- 7. Holy War, Holy City -- 8. "Until God Shall Inherit the Earth": The Islamicizing of Jerusalem -- 9. The Piety of Power: The Mamluks in Jerusalem -- 10. Pilgrim Voices: The Real and the Ideal in Medieval Jerusalem -- 11. City in the Desert: Jerusalem Under the Ottomans -- 12. Conclusion: Jerusalem, a Disputed Inheritance -- Appendix: The Sources for the History of Jerusalem.".
- catalog title "The distant shrine : the Islamic centuries in Jerusalem / F.E. Peters.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".